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Back to the good ol’ days I think the city should just let Uber grow organically until there is one Uber for every citizen. That way we can just drive ourselves around for free like before! MILES KISINGER (We seem to be well on our way) Stumbling blocks I understand the reasoning behind Alberta going
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I think the city should just let Uber grow organically until there is one Uber for every citizen. That way we can just drive ourselves around for free like before!
MILES KISINGER
(We seem to be well on our way)
Stumbling blocks
I understand the reasoning behind Alberta going it on our own. We would save billions of dollars in transfer payments not sent to Ottawa and no longer have to pay federal taxes. This alone would support an Alberta Pension Plan, which would be simply grand. Not having to bow down to eastern Canada even better. My question, however, would have to be just how does separation allow us to get our products to markets other than the U.S.? Unless British Columbia were to join in and also cede from Canada, we would still be landlocked. Ottawa would still have the authority to impose a tanker ban on the west coast, thus handcuffing our shipping ability, and good luck ever getting a pipeline to the east coast. As much as I am sick and tired of being nothing more than a cash cow for eastern Canada, there are some really big obstacles that would have to be overcome before I would personally commit to Alberta going it on our own.
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JOHN HANCOCK
(Those are some very good points, which many separatists seem to be ignoring)
Fossil fools
Did this province truly think anything different was going to prevail from this throne speech in Ottawa on May 27th? It’s funny to see how quickly all these critics of fossil fuels voice their displeasure against the oil and gas industry. And yet, somehow we don’t see them travelling to the four corners of the globe in hot-air balloons, to back up their words.
DONALD K. MUNROE
(Living without fossil fuels is much easier said than done)
A question of fairness
Discussions about oil and natural gas exploration/transportation would be a moot point in Canada if the oil and gas had been discovered in Quebec rather than Alberta. There would be pipelines to the East Coast, West Coast, USA and tankers incoming and outgoing in all directions. And no more stupid comments from Gibeault and LeBlanc. Alberta would not have any say in pipeline construction but Quebec could then subsidize Alberta with many billions rather than the other way around.
BRENT LEWIS
(Things that make you go hmmmm)
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