XPost: bc.politics, can.politics, ab.politics   
   From: none@present.com   
      
   "The Doctor"  wrote in message news:mesv8v$4an$1@ns2.nl2k.ab.ca...   
      
   > In article <5511fb7b$0$4811$b1db1813$376fe2e5@news.astraweb.com>,   
   > slamspam   wrote:   
      
   Snip!   
      
   > >The video makes it clear that Norway took high taxes/royalties from the   
   > >companies extracting their oil.   
   > >And that oil was considered a *country's* oil, not a region's oil.   
      
   The Charlottetown Conference was in 1864.  The British North America Act was   
   signed into law in 1867.  So your whining about provincial control of   
   resources is somewhere between one hundred and fifty-one and one hundred and   
   forty-eight years too late.   
      
   > >Pierre Trudeau had it right.  Alberta's greed and Con governments landed   
   > >them   
   > >right back where they belong.  In budget deficits.   
      
   Citing Trudeau on deficits?  BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   
      
   Trudeau was borrowing money to spend on programs, and borrowing more money   
   to pay the interest on the money he borrowed the year before.   
      
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