02/26/2016
Not to blow up your Friday but here's REAL math on what Alberta does for Canada. Here's a direct quote from the article attached:
"Between 2000 and 2014, on a net basis, Alberta’s individual and corporate taxpayers shipped an estimated $200 billion-plus to the federal government. That’s what left the province, less what the feds reinvested here.
To put that lofty figure in perspective, it’s nearly 12 times the value of the $17.4 billion Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund. No other province — including Ontario, with three times Alberta’s population — even comes close to matching this province’s contribution to the federation".
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http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/gary+lamphier+much+money+flowed+alberta+ottawa/11731833/story.html
“Other provinces have basically been trying to extort benefits out of a pipeline going through their province. To a certain degree I can understand that, but when it gets to the point where they are as bellicose as (Montreal mayor) Denis Coderre has been, I just find it sickening," says Fred M…
