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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
It's a subsidy for farmers. The oldest political trick in the book is to get farmers votes because due to the depopulation of rural areas in favor of urban centres, rural voters always have a disproportionate amount of voting power.
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Yeah, because it's not like the federal government provides subsidies to traditional fuel manufacturers (such as the federal government providing about 1.5 billion annually in subsidies to the oil sands); I'm curious to know how you feel about Imperial Oil wanting a 3 billion dollar subsidy for their Mackenzie gas pipeline.
And why, exactly, would conservative governments be trying to buy votes of alberta farmers, when it's been decades since any rural alberta riding has elected a non-conservative/reform/alliance candidate? Seems like if they're simply interested in buying votes, investing in just about any other demographic in the country would be a better investment.