A network of inauthentic YouTube channels posing as Albertan voices is spreading misleading content about separation and U.S. annexation, reaching tens of millions of viewers, according to a new report.
Yes medial care is provincial - but Alberta’s beef is that we send billions out east and dont get any of it back. If we didn’t have to send it, we could have billions to spend on our own services. Meanwhile other provinces (not mentioning any names, eh, Quebec?) take billions every year while playing the ‘have not’ province game because they dont count their rich hydro electric as a resource in the equalization formula. We’re being gamed and everyone, including Ottawa, knows it but they dont want to piss off Quebecers and lose their votes so they keep this unfair system going.
but Alberta’s beef is that we send billions out east and dont get any of it back.
Except that pipeline that Trudeau built for Alberta.
Or the health transfers that Trudeau was trying to send to the provinces, but every conservative provincial government rejected it because the feds wanted guarantees that the money would be specifically used for Healthcare and nothing else.
And those are only 2 of the biggest ones in recent years.
Ok, the use of “any” isn’t accurate. We dont get MOST of it back. We send about 20 billion a year more to Ottawa than we get back. Compared to what Ottawa takes, the “gift” of a pipeline isn’t exactly altruistic of Ottawa considering the billions in tax revenue it generates.
Ok, the question though is what do you want from that money? Is there something you find the federal government is obligated to provide but doesn’t from the oil money?
Good question. We just want Ottawa to get out of the way and let us do it ourselves. We dont want more funding we just want to not have to send so much of it away that we cant spend what we raise on our own healthcare, education and social programs.
So are you proposing an increase to provincial taxation in exchange for a reduction in federal taxation? Also is financing the real barrier in the Western Provinces making these changes?
Why would we need an increase in provincial taxation? If we don’t have to send 20 billion to Ottawa next year, we can fund a lot of projects on our own without increases to the taxpayer, that money can go straight into provincial coffers.
Maybe I’m confused then over where this $20B figure is coming from? If the money the federal government is taking isn’t from a tax on oil companies, then we’re? From your statement it sounds like this money is existing taxed money by the province that then gets taken and sent to the federal government. I’m not sure that’s the case so please do explain further.
Yes medial care is provincial - but Alberta’s beef is that we send billions out east and dont get any of it back. If we didn’t have to send it, we could have billions to spend on our own services. Meanwhile other provinces (not mentioning any names, eh, Quebec?) take billions every year while playing the ‘have not’ province game because they dont count their rich hydro electric as a resource in the equalization formula. We’re being gamed and everyone, including Ottawa, knows it but they dont want to piss off Quebecers and lose their votes so they keep this unfair system going.
Except that pipeline that Trudeau built for Alberta.
Or the health transfers that Trudeau was trying to send to the provinces, but every conservative provincial government rejected it because the feds wanted guarantees that the money would be specifically used for Healthcare and nothing else.
And those are only 2 of the biggest ones in recent years.
Ok, the use of “any” isn’t accurate. We dont get MOST of it back. We send about 20 billion a year more to Ottawa than we get back. Compared to what Ottawa takes, the “gift” of a pipeline isn’t exactly altruistic of Ottawa considering the billions in tax revenue it generates.
Ok, the question though is what do you want from that money? Is there something you find the federal government is obligated to provide but doesn’t from the oil money?
Good question. We just want Ottawa to get out of the way and let us do it ourselves. We dont want more funding we just want to not have to send so much of it away that we cant spend what we raise on our own healthcare, education and social programs.
So are you proposing an increase to provincial taxation in exchange for a reduction in federal taxation? Also is financing the real barrier in the Western Provinces making these changes?
Why would we need an increase in provincial taxation? If we don’t have to send 20 billion to Ottawa next year, we can fund a lot of projects on our own without increases to the taxpayer, that money can go straight into provincial coffers.
Maybe I’m confused then over where this $20B figure is coming from? If the money the federal government is taking isn’t from a tax on oil companies, then we’re? From your statement it sounds like this money is existing taxed money by the province that then gets taken and sent to the federal government. I’m not sure that’s the case so please do explain further.