Comment 81728

By Pxtl (registered) - website | Posted October 16, 2012 at 09:09:16

Mulcair is just playing regionalism. Ontarians are envious of the easy economic boom Albertans have thanks to their herculean achievement of happening to be located over the most valuable resource of our time. So he's playing to that envy - first with his Dutch Disease (the jury's still out on that one - Canada's leading economists say no, but international economists say yes) and now figuring if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Alberta is never going to adopt a moderate, responsible resource policy so we may as well get our cut. Regionalism launched two of Canada's most successful political parties (the Refo...Conservatives, and the PQ) so it's no surprise he's trying to do it in Ontario.

Either way, there's too much money on their side... one way or another that oil is coming out of Alberta, it's only a matter of where. Maybe if the oil industry hadn't completely destroyed their own reputation with so many spills and catastrophes, the public might be more interested in the potential income instead of the liability? Because as it stands, every time I hear politicians talking about the dollar signs of these things, my first thought is always "still less than the clean-up cost if something goes wrong, and the company will somehow squirm out of paying for it and leave it in the taxpayer's lap".

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