>>84132340>scared by some hippies.More like discovered his "magic economic touch" was just him sipping the same Kool-Aid he gave others post-2008. Post Nexen deal, and especially post Keystone implosion (i.e. right as his majority would have been able to move this file), everything imploded.
>That's the revisionist history you're trying to go with.So wait, are you telling me that we live in a Canada with all those pipelines? What revisionist history is this?
>Citing the current cratered oil prices doesn't explain why the country saw very little economic benefit outside of AlbertaBecause manufacturing is always going to be uncompetitive in Western countries (unless you believe the economic nationalist memes), it was only viable in an economy with a low dollar that was de facto tied to oil pricing speculation, and next to the world's largest economy.
Provincial governments have a huge mandate to promote science and technology sectors, as well as other skilled sectors, due to the Constitution; the fact that Canadian provinces couldn't understand that we live in a post-manufacturing, post-fisheries economy is troubling.
I'm agreeing with you about taxation, which is a different beast than the unbalanced budget spectre you were raising earlier.
