newlygrounded wrote: ↑Mon May 05, 2025 4:48 pm
altiplano wrote: ↑Mon May 05, 2025 1:37 pm
newlygrounded wrote: ↑Mon May 05, 2025 12:16 pm
Oil isn't going to be a long term financial boom, even if every province was cool with pipelines (but would be on their own for spills) who would fund them? It's funny you talk about adapting but have a 1950's mindset when it comes to the economy. A separate Alberta wouldn't do much better.
Lets say the natives are cool with you taking their land, the government gives up the oil in the ground, how is it getting to the market outside the US? Who says Trump will play fair?
I'm in reality when it comes to the economy. Oil isn't going anywhere. There's money in it today and into the future. And that money today will fund the future and the team adaptations that may be needed.
And the economy in this country is collapsing. Climate policies are only controlling access to energy, increasing its cost, and monetizing our guilt over a fairy tale.
"Native land" - I don't buy the assertion and I don't pay lip service to race or identity based policy. I believe in modernism and realism. The only thing that matters is who is here today and a part of this country/province/community and what they are going to contribute to it. There has to be an end to the mindset that has pushed a divergent victim society within Canada, I would suggest that the Revolution would be a good place to wipe all of that clean with a new deal and new future to benefit everyone.
Trump may not play clean, there will be advantage to him taking a side though and it won't be Liberal Canada's side that has nothing he needs... Alberta certainly won't be worse off and oil and gas will still flow in the Canadian pipelines... just look at Europe still buying Russian oil and gas while Putin rebuilds an army on their doorstep... and they can't get enough of it.
That's reality. The world needs oil and gas and they aren't going to stop.
If you're in reality then you'd see analysts are saying large capex projects like a Canada wide pipeline are seen as risky and not a good investment. Oil will always have demand but if Alberta is smart they'd start to diversify!
The only thing that matters today is the rule of law. We signed a treaty and as a law abiding nation we're going to abide by them.
aviran9111 wrote: ↑Mon May 05, 2025 1:03 pm
newlygrounded wrote: ↑Mon May 05, 2025 8:56 am
Ah so deflecting, nice! Thanks for admitting you don't have any answers.
What happened to rule of law? 90% of the "handouts" are the government giving them things that were agreed to in the treaties.
I can tell you first hand - $5,000 for kids clothing and $10,000 for adult ones are NOT agreed upon, they are votes buyout. I live in an area with nearly 50% natives. You know what they used that money for?! FXR, Canada Goose, etc. You know what many did!? Sold it and converted they clothing money to drug money. That is on top of the $100,000 per adults and $50,000 per kid they got the previous year.
Of course, that is on top of the income tax exemption they are getting on their reserve (and yet want the federal government to pay for anything they need, no while contributing NOTHING).
At least natural selection works really well there with their drinking and OD problems.....
Can you link me the clothing articles? They contribute with the resources we agreed to take from what was originally their land.
Imagine being such a terrible person you celebrate people dying from addictions?
tsgarp wrote: ↑Mon May 05, 2025 4:14 pm
newlygrounded wrote: ↑Mon May 05, 2025 8:56 am
Ah so deflecting, nice! Thanks for admitting you don't have any answers.
No deflection. I think the Conservative plan would work quite well, as would his plan to deal with the homeless. You may not like the results, but I’m willing to live with that.
His plan was to spend $200,000 a year jailing people with Addictions issues! That sounds very cost effective lmao!
His housing plan was 15% cumulative growth FOREVER, can you let me know where the manpower, cranes etc would come from? How are you going to prevent costs from skyrocketing ala covid when demand shoots up?
Alberta as a new country, signed no treaty and agreements with anyone, and if the majority of Alberta wants no treaties, than natives can either agree or have their own Alamo.
Secondly, they do NOT own any of the oil lands.
Thirdly, they wouldn't be able to use those natural resources without Western technology.
And lastly, the strong survive, if it boils down to it.
You know what?! Maybe their chiefs should cry harder, get their salary raised from $300,000 to $600,000 and give NOTHING to their own band.
In BC, doctors and nurses used a black humor of guessing those natives BAC without using names. I know firsthand as a former paramedic, black humor is one of the ONLY mechanism to handle the burden. Guess what those bums did? They sues for discrimination, only to get $25,000, which you guessed it - they spent on booze on drugs, and some of them actually OD.
Their problem is NOT our problem. They want their own sovereignty, they can have it, but they need to STOP milking the tax payer and start paying their own damn property and income tax and look after their own from that money.
Edit: As for the links for the clothing money - I could never find one, that is the real shady part of it. I saw that money with my own eyes, I saw hundreds, if not thousands, of Status Card holders getting it, but could never find it. Maybe file a FOIA for it. Funny that after it came, all the reserve's I've being to had Red lawn signs.