The intent is to trigger a provincial referendum, and hope for something stupid like Brexit to happen. If they get anything close to 50%, then Trump will pull a Crimea and invade to LiBeRaTe the poor oPprEsSeD minority.
One theory is Trudeau put in a clearly unpopular capital gains tax policy and blew past the budget to have Freeland blame him was all preordained in order to elect Carney as the savior, who is a climate change advocate who will appear progressive enough to push a pipeline through Quebec using this constitutional crisis. In order to lower reliance on Russian energy globally, since we cant get a pipeline for LNG overseas exports any other way, given how provincial powers work in Canada.
The last 15 years Alberta contributed 240b to Ottawa while Quebec received 327b, if Alberta leaves as a tariff wipes out Quebecs industries its obviously leaves them with no choice. Cons obviously cant push a pipeline either, given Quebecs hatred of the Cons.
Its concluding that if Alberta leaves Quebec will be screwed, so its in Quebecs interest to allow a pipeline to prevent secession. The tariffs on manufacturing emboldens this with an even larger crisis. The long term plan would be to end the reliance on Russian energy, assuming its true, but it seems to be unfolding as predicted so far which is neat.
Heres who was predicting it, starting about 28 minutes in:
Its not nonsense, Alberta gets 0$ in equalization payments most years. They also have a small population with extremely high corporate profits with high margins, so those corporations pay more taxes, regardless if it trickles down to workers or not. Also during a recession oil generally does okay, while other provinces are wiped out.
Only Alberta babies constantly whinging about equalization payments. JFC. Stop begrudging QC their social programs. If AB wants social programs (🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣) then fucking pay for them with your oil billions. Stop deluding yourselves that you pay for another provinces programs. Am in Ontario, never ONCE does it cross our minds that our equalization payments go to New Brunswick or PEI or some shit. Only Alberta are douchebags this way.
Alberta went for many years benefiting from equalization. Saskatchewan just recently became a ‘have’ province after spending decades as a have not. Yes, both provinces were sucking off Ontario’s tit while they were scratching dirt trying to feed themselves, and there were no complaints then…but now, conveniently when oil oligarchs started deciding the politics of those two provinces, now they become ungrateful assholes who want to keep all their money and not help anyone else. Fuck you, I got mine. A tale as old as time.
We need to nationalize oil and gas and start a proper sovereign wealth fund. Get the private money (especially US) out of there. As soon as we do that I bet all this division would fizzle out.
That’s irrelevant.
The intent is to trigger a provincial referendum, and hope for something stupid like Brexit to happen. If they get anything close to 50%, then Trump will pull a Crimea and invade to LiBeRaTe the poor oPprEsSeD minority.
I guarantee she’s already discussed a plan with Trump about these scenarios. She’s a Maga hat traitor.
Albertans will be surprised to learn just how little land they can take with them.
Give the unmarked American owned media organizations with major Republican connections time to soft sell Albertans.
It only takes months to soft-pivot literally everything.
One theory is Trudeau put in a clearly unpopular capital gains tax policy and blew past the budget to have Freeland blame him was all preordained in order to elect Carney as the savior, who is a climate change advocate who will appear progressive enough to push a pipeline through Quebec using this constitutional crisis. In order to lower reliance on Russian energy globally, since we cant get a pipeline for LNG overseas exports any other way, given how provincial powers work in Canada.
The last 15 years Alberta contributed 240b to Ottawa while Quebec received 327b, if Alberta leaves as a tariff wipes out Quebecs industries its obviously leaves them with no choice. Cons obviously cant push a pipeline either, given Quebecs hatred of the Cons.
How much did Alberta get back?
How much did Quebec contribute?
That’s after taking into account what they get back. That’s just net gain/loss.
Where can I find these numbers? I’ve never actually seen how provinces compare and I’m curious about the rest
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/understanding-albertas-outsized-contribution-to-confederation
What do you believe this article is concluding? Do you think it’s a completely objective and fair assessment of the topic?
Its concluding that if Alberta leaves Quebec will be screwed, so its in Quebecs interest to allow a pipeline to prevent secession. The tariffs on manufacturing emboldens this with an even larger crisis. The long term plan would be to end the reliance on Russian energy, assuming its true, but it seems to be unfolding as predicted so far which is neat.
Heres who was predicting it, starting about 28 minutes in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enHNWDawcQo
Right wing crap “think tank” and not a serious or credible source for anything.
Its not nonsense, Alberta gets 0$ in equalization payments most years. They also have a small population with extremely high corporate profits with high margins, so those corporations pay more taxes, regardless if it trickles down to workers or not. Also during a recession oil generally does okay, while other provinces are wiped out.
Only Alberta babies constantly whinging about equalization payments. JFC. Stop begrudging QC their social programs. If AB wants social programs (🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣) then fucking pay for them with your oil billions. Stop deluding yourselves that you pay for another provinces programs. Am in Ontario, never ONCE does it cross our minds that our equalization payments go to New Brunswick or PEI or some shit. Only Alberta are douchebags this way.
Alberta went for many years benefiting from equalization. Saskatchewan just recently became a ‘have’ province after spending decades as a have not. Yes, both provinces were sucking off Ontario’s tit while they were scratching dirt trying to feed themselves, and there were no complaints then…but now, conveniently when oil oligarchs started deciding the politics of those two provinces, now they become ungrateful assholes who want to keep all their money and not help anyone else. Fuck you, I got mine. A tale as old as time.
We need to nationalize oil and gas and start a proper sovereign wealth fund. Get the private money (especially US) out of there. As soon as we do that I bet all this division would fizzle out.