Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s father rolled out the National Energy Program in 1980 — a punitive tax grab for Alberta’s oil revenues to pay for the Liberal welfare state. Years later, Justin Trudeau did a redo by discriminating against Alberta’s oil industry to pay for his welfare state, phoney climate agenda and Quebec goodies.
But again, the jig’s up and Alberta Premier Jason Kenney came out fighting this weekend and, as many of us have recommended, embarked on a “workaround” strategy to get out from under Trudeau and the Laurentian elites who still control Canada.
Instead of a national energy grab, this Trudeau has cloaked himself in green by attacking the oil industry without even addressing the real problem which is demand.
Kenney’s workaround emulates Quebec’s near-sovereignty autonomy as well as is aimed at getting out from under the equalization transfer system and other fed policies that are rigged to bribe Quebec with Alberta money.
“Quebec announced a $4 billion surplus after getting $13 billion in equalization transfer payments from Alberta,” said the agitated premier in a speech Saturday at the Manning Conference I attended in Red Deer.
For example, he said, Ottawa has overcharged Alberta $1.7 billion in transfer overpayments since 2015 — created after Ottawa made an unfair adjustment to benefit Quebec. He wants an immediate rebate and, frankly, if not paid within 30 days, then I believe Alberta should sue Ottawa, plus penalties and interest.
This is policy malpractice on a grand scale. Attacking Alberta’s oil industry — the fourth-largest in the world — harms the province, its industry, its people, and Canada. In the past five years, Alberta’s economy has shrunk, unemployment soared and incomes declined.
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See Also:
(1) Alberta, maddened with despair, looks at Firewall II: Wexit Boogaloo
(2) As western tensions rise, BQ’s Blanchet says West shouldn’t look to him for help
(4) Why the People’s Party of Canada election result shouldn’t be underestimated
(5) Quebec used to be happy to take my money in English. Now, not so much
Quebec has been the abusive partner in a century and a half old relationship. The ROC is the abused spouse in an failed, unworkable partnership yet continues to believe it must remain because it has no other choice. Slowly more and more of the abused are coming to the conclusion that leaving is the only option. Bottom line. Quebec couldn’t get away with what it does if it didn’t have outside help. And it does. Thanks to you people, ya the anti-poppy LPC voting dweebs in FUBAR Toronto (GTA).
Biting the hand that feeds you never had more meaning…
How Alberta pays Quebec’s bills: Four charts that show Alberta picks up the tab
The nearly $240B Albertans have paid out as part of net federal fiscal transfers is more than one-and-a-half times as much as B.C. and Ontario combined
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/how-alberta-pays-quebecs-bills-four-charts-that-show-alberta-picks-up-the-tab