Won't someone think of the INDUSTRY?! Which made 50 billion dollars in profit while laying off people? And eating massive government corporate welfare?! Keep it in the ground and re-train workers to do something that isn't burning the planet.
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Maybe the oil companies could put those laid off workers back to work cleaning up the $4 billion worth of abandoned oil wells.
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Now why would they do that
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I mean estimates run as high as 260M, but yep! Standard problem; Private profits, public risk and costs. Also known as corporate welfare, and to heck with the people
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Just love MP’s who have never held a real job. This young fellow is in a riding where you could run a box of pencils with a CPC logo and win. Unfortunately he will be yet another CPC lifer with a shitload of kids and a big pension.
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I've lived in those ridings before, oh hey the poling is 80% con and no one has ever even seen the candidate, that's, uh, neat I guess?
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We want to live in the past because as Albertans we haven't diversified, we haven't instituted a sales tax, we spend our higher-than-average incomes on boats and big trucks and toys, we've become accustomed to job rewards without merit, and we whine when we don't get our way.
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I mean... I'm from AB. My parents are conservatives. But my tweet is pretty much a direct quote from my Dad. He gets it.
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Give your dad a hug for me.
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I gave him lots when I was in Calgary at Christmas. It's very interesting talking politics with him. (My mom not so much! She's been Foxified)
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A friend's engineering firm was specing a project in Alberta this past year. The contractors walked in with oilpatch cost-plus quotes; had clearly worked out the pecking order; were going to use the project to fix their own over-leveraged position. The client pulled the plug.
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These folks didn't want work - they wanted easy money: the definition of "moral hazard" and main thing the "invisible hand" is supposed to regulate. The client went away; the engineering firm is currently building a similar project in Montana.
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Like the response to Amazon jobs in Leduc. "But we want OIL jobs that pay lots of money". Nowhere else would people with zero higher education be able to make so much. People in their 20s paying off mortgages with signing bonuses. They aren't living in reality.
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We want. We want. We want. What are you 12?
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no, they are not 12, but they may not be apart of Canada soon if JT wins the next election. we (the west) want to be heard.
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You are heard, but the Supreme Court has ruled and now more work to be done.
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Harper would have had the same decision from the Supremes. It is not Trudeau's fault. Sick of these lies and people refusing facts. Cpc can rant and lie all they want, but they offer no solutions and are taking advantage of the situation and emotions.
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I don't see cpc nor Albertans getting mad at the US for holding up Keystone. And yet it has been blocked until further consultations and enviro impacts are better assessed. Hmmmm

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more than just a pipeline at play here, the east needs to learn to listen with empathy or watch us leave.
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Where are you going to go? Seriously, have you put any thought into this threat at all?
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