• Erk@cdda.social
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    1 year ago

    It’s so bizarre when we could be taxing them and using the tax money to reduce our reliance on them. Though that should have started fifty years ago.

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      1 year ago

      Though that should have started fifty years ago.

      Ah, so that was part of the plan Peter Lougheed used as a platform to wrest control of Alberta from the Socreds 50 years ago, then? I know it was an impressive plan, and I worry his party has accomplished none of its goals since then, but while I know reducing tariffs on oil exports was in the plan, I’m not sure whether taxing them provincially was part of it.

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        1 year ago

        Not sure about what was going on in Alberta that long ago but I recall they toyed with the idea of not being doormats for a bit before deciding they preferred to be stepped on.