XPost: can.general, can.politics, ott.general   
   From: Canuck57@nospam.com   
      
   On 16/09/2011 11:34 PM, C. A. Rotwang wrote:   
   > John Fleming wrote   
   >   
   >> Corporations aren't government job creation programs.   
   >> Corporations exist to provide goods and services and,   
   >> ideally, return a profit to their owners.   
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   >   
   > I know that even those of my kind who see stupidity in 2 British Thermal   
   > Units of natural gas producing 1 BTU of Oil sands oil, agree with your former   
   > Premier Lougheed  and what he says today about the pipeline to Texas   
   > refineries, and not building them in Alberta.   I also think that we are   
   > selling Alberta by the pound.   It was years ago when cutting royalties meant   
   > involving companies to be in.   Now people know that the oil sands are viable   
   > and Alberta must not give them away.     This isn't 10 years ago.   
   >   
   > Alberta's fight isn't against Ottawa, it's against themselves.   Nobody is   
   > going to move out of the area because royalties for the people increase.   
   >   
   > Where are they going to go?   The other oil sands in Chavez's Venezuela?   
   >   
   > Fat chance.   
   >   
   > Though I wish that oil would not be so necessary, we all know that it is and   
   > will be for the foreseeable future.    So making Hay while the Sun shines is   
   > up  to government.   Alberta.   
   >   
   >   
   > Make those refineries, ship the finished product to the USA.  Don't ship raw   
   > material.   
   >   
   >   
   > Jobs should be where the natural resources exist.   
   >   
   > Russia and Canada have nuclear industries.  Australia doesn't.   
   >   
   > And the three biggest producers of Uranium are Australia, Canada and Russia.   
   >   
   > I don't want to be like Australia for any resource.   
      
   Funny, of Euro-Western nations Australia has the best economy going.   
   Only 5% unemployment, slowly growing, 5% interest rates, solid currency,   
   less dependence on failing USA and faulting Euro....   
      
   I would say Australia by design or by circumstance is well positioned   
   with a lot less middle class carnage we see even in Canada.   
   --   
   First rule of holes:  If you're in one, don't keep digging.   
   So in the hole, why do we insanely want more debt?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)