Feb. 2020. Since we're all about a united Canada all of a sudden.
Conservative Alberta MPs raise spectre of Western separation with ‘Buffalo Declaration’
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/conservative-alberta-mps-raise-spectre-of-western-separation-with-buffalo-declaration/article_92a3c303-cbf0-50ab-a772-63f0ec861392.html
Maybe it's just me, but I found the separatists in the Bloc Quebecois had and have a much more coherent statement of cause and intent.
To be entirely fair, the separatists also have hatred, and few things have been quite as culturally defining as a good old dose of hate.
@DavidM_yeg @theogrin @dyckron Alberta’s downfall is its success. Its dedication to the oil industry and its sucess has made that industry very profitable, but an ever declining # of Albertans benefit from this success
AND Alberta supports little outside of its oil industry, cuz alternatives are sacrilege
The wealthy and privileged won’t take the blame, It can’t be my parents and grandparents fault… It’s Canada’s fault!
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Alberta Success is failure? One example
No New Jobs Came from Alberta’s $4B ‘Job Creation’ Tax Cut for Big Oil
3,452 jobs with oil sands majors were lost to automation and consolidation
CEOs of the “Big Four” enjoying an average annual pay raise of $2.35 million
shareholders have also been considerably enriched, with dividends in some cases totalling “more than twice the amount oil companies paid the province in royalties.”
But its all because Canada treats Alberta unfairly
https://www.theenergymix.com/no-new-jobs-came-from-albertas-4b-job-creation-tax-cut-for-big-oil/
Canada’s biggest oil sands companies have benefitted to the tune of $4.3 billion since Alberta handed large corporations a ‘job creation’ tax cut three years ago, but those jobs never materialized, a new study has found.
If this seems familiar to the technological crowd, it's because this little shell game is exactly what companies are doing with 'data centers', using LLM and automation to replace workers rather than hire more, while the data centers themselves siphon up massive amounts of resources both physical and electrical and return nothing to the community.
Alberta got to be the test market for a revision of the classic game, "How do we fuck over the working class?"
@theogrin @DavidM_yeg The success of Alberta: “$6 of every $10 in profits crossing the border, never to return, Mayrand said the Canadian oil sands majors produced $12.3 billion worth of capital flight per year.”
That’s income that never returns to Canada, it’s not invested in Canada, spent in Canada, but it’s all eastern Canada’s fault
Canada’s biggest oil sands producers are sending a large share of their profits out of the country to their shareholders in the United States, the CEO of the Trottier Family Foundation warns in an opinion piece for L’Actualité, just as polling shows wide public support for protecting national sovereignty over natural resources.
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