Looking for an Alberta economic indicator? At a Calgary airport gate that seats 180, just 14 passengers are waiting. pic.twitter.com/gjKNTfUOjy
— Martin Kennedy (@mkyeg) December 26, 2015
Looking for an Alberta economic indicator? At a Calgary airport gate that seats 180, just 14 passengers are waiting. pic.twitter.com/gjKNTfUOjy
— Martin Kennedy (@mkyeg) December 26, 2015
The progressive twitter’er of course comments about how “it’s bad to build an economy around natural resources”. This is typical of the clueless and stupid. Easy access to hydrocarbon in Alberta has powered, literally, much of Canada literally for decades. You don’t hear Manitobans complaining about how stupid it was to build an economy around Hydro, Mining and Farming (as well as some oil)? Yet without those resources Manitoba would have very little to support its’ population. The Rest of Canada isn’t complaining about the transfer payments IT STILL RECEIVES from Alberta either. I met a person the other day who moved to Edmonton a year ago from down east to find work. The work is gone and they’re moving back east now. It’s true that the NDP Gov’t isn’t responsible for oil & gas pricing – but with them torpedoing Northern Gateway and implementing immediately harmful taxes to the industry they are showing how much they hate what Alberta is and the people who made their living here.
As I’ve said before, I’m so glad I left Alberta when I did. Economy in the toilet, petty dictators in government. Real recipe for success. At least we have President Trump to look forward to.
The NDP will wear this for ever. I expect they’ll be bent on as destruction as possible on their last term.
Aren’t the 25th and 26th of December the slowest travel days of the year?
“I expect they’ll be bent on as destruction as possible on their last term.”
The New Dictator Party (NDP)will increase the number of union workers under WCB and Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S) by the hundreds, they will want as many union workers by the next election … along with the Federal Unions … by introducing a union for farm and ranch workers. Just like last election, the cities where there are thousands of union workers, will start to creep into the rural areas … that is how the New Dictator Party (NDP) keeps in power over years.
I guarantee not one union job will be lost.
Ontario is a good example: they were a have province then Ontario voted in a LIEberal government which totally destroyed what was left of previous government, now a have-not province. Now with Just-in and the Alberta New Dictator Party (NDP) in power, both hate the oil industry enough to shut it down, and with farmers and ranchers about to loose everything because of Bill 6, and “clean energy” about to destroy the electrical energy sector [shutting down coal power plants] for Global Warming/Climate Change policies.
Two things to keep in mind. Marxists prefer to destroy economies, that way they can rebuild them according to their liking and socialist precepts. As far as Bill 6 is concerned, socialists hate independent farmers (kulaks),as they are too hard to control, and furthermore socialists much prefer the collective in which the individual is suppressed.
not “that” slow!!!!
I sure looks good tho, especially on those who were always deriding us here in Ontario. Good things come to those who VOTE for it:-)))))
and in case you tools don’t get it, Peston Manning played a big part in this. He was the one who encouraged both, the floor crossing, and the push on gorebull warming. DO NOT let overly religious a-holes run the show
I dunno I flew outa Calgary for thunder bay/toronto Dec 15 with 17 on board. Pick a seat, any seat.
It never ceases to amaze me how Canadians automatically take American economic perimeters and assume similar Canadian outcomes. Canada has no where near the USA’s economic strength. The American economy generates far more wealth on a per capita basis than the resource based Canadian economy. As a consequence Canada’s ability to carry debt, especially in a deflationary period, is much less than the USA.
Canada generates about 31% of GDP revenue from material dominated exports. This can be profitable during periods of high demand but that profit tumbles during times like today. So as the Liebels crow about deficit spending generating GDP growth of 4% they are either lying through their teeth or are simply too stupid to know differently.
Prognosticators reassure Canadian home owners that their housing values are safe from any kind of bubble that the Americans experienced not that long ago. Really? The western oil industry has collapsed and the much vaunted recovery of manufacturing in the east has not happened. Who will pay the bills? Mortgage lenders reassure the public that their loan ratios are at a safe 60% of market valuation. People cannot fathom their house values dropping 40%. Canadians should know better as any abandoned mining town testifies.
At what point will economic reality rear its ugly head. As per the norm in our Boomer dominated society moves are afoot to rob current CPP doners of their anticipated returns. Underfunded Boomers want payout increases which do just that. Their ‘need’ is always justified. If our society condones this then where will government stop as they try to feed the beast?
It’s been great watching the crowds clear out, plenty of seating whether it’s restaurants, planes or wherever!
By the Calgary Herald the deadbeats have finally slowed to a stop as well, and many have fled home to sit on the welfare teat of their own provincial communist regimes.
In three years we’ll auto correct the Alberta government, so buy into those discounts now.
Check out the Communist NDP plan for Alberta Equalization Payments –
“Bill Morneau on Monday, no changes were brought forward and Alberta will continue to be a contributing member of the nearly $18-billion equalization program.
“We will be a contributor to equalization for many years, likely, because we’re 35 per cent over the country average in terms of incomes so there’s no discussion about any changes,” said Ceci.” – Edmonton Sun
http://www.edmontonsun.com/2015/12/22/alberta-to-continue-to-make-equalization-payments
Yea, they’ll still be there in 3 years/ sarc
Once the blood sucking parasites start they are not going away until the host is a cold, lifeless corpse.
I just returned from Puerto Vallarta. Resorts that are “guaranteed” to be 100% booked well in advance of peak season were operating at 83%. Compared to past years there were relatively few Canadians, with Americans and locals taking advantage of discounted stays.
Prestons role in perpetuating the screwing of the west goes back to 87 when he was influential in the deflection of western discontent down the road to where we are now! Irrelevant!!
Had he done what some of us argued for and that was to enter politics in the arena of the four western provinces… Things would look much different today and the west would be much more agile in dealing with issues today.
Especally with indepence of the western provinces always an option.
NDP peddled the lie that the PCs did nothing to diversify the economy during their years in power. Compare the two charts on this page to see what a lie that was. Energy went from 36.1% pf GDP in 1985 to 24.6% in 2014. Other sectors grew substantially. So just what do NDP think we can diversify to?
http://albertacanada.com/business/overview/economic-results.aspx
Instead NDP seems determined to kill off our remaining industries. Their energy policies will severely damage that sector. They have already gone after agriculture. Their minimum wage laws will not do any favours to the tourism, retail and services sectors. I can`t wait to see what new taxes they will come up with to kill off the remaining industries.
At least the repossession industry is booming.
http://www.metronews.ca/news/canada/2015/12/23/firms-that-repossess-cars-oversee-evictions-working-flat-out-amid-oil-doldrums.html
My curiosity involves the next tweet.
[Quote]Martin Kennedy @mkyeg 22h22 hours ago
Martin Kennedy Retweeted MNHistoricalSociety
Gen. Pope: “It is my purpose utterly to exterminate the Sioux…They are to be treated as maniacs or wild beasts.”
Martin Kennedy added,
MNHistoricalSociety @mnhs
#OTD 1862: We remember the 38 Dakota hanged at Mankato, the largest mass execution in U.S. history. Learn more at: http://www.usdakotawar.org .[Unquote]
Mind you, these poor innocent cherub like savages just killed 800 white people. Obviously whitie had it coming.
I thought it was a convention hall where all the attendees were told, “All those who voted NDP last election please stay seated.”
To be fair: I go through that section of the Calgary airport twice a year, and even 5-10 years ago it wasn’t uncommon for it to be largely empty.
Past Time we left this rotted corpse of a Dominion run by eastern nuts, force feeding communism on us all.
Thats the only way to amputate the infection.infection. Harper was an interlude, now comes the full force of the Ontario machine coming our way via socialist locusts.
They’re all at at bus depot!!!
Who can afford to fly when yer a “economic refugee”?
Use that gate often. It is downstairs as it used to board the smaller Dash planes that connect to smaller centres. You board a bus and are driven to the plane! I travelled through there on Xmas Day enroute to Kelowna. There were a few people, including one annoying older lady who talked loudly to herself. It is cold, has crappy coffee service, no bar and only a couple of charging stations. I only went down there this time as the rest of the airport was cramped with people due to the extensive renovations and Tims was only an escalator ride up the stairs.
My nephew, an astute financial analyst had a well paying job in Calgary. He bugged out for less pay earlier this year. He now works in New York deciding to forgo offers he received from Toronto firms. He will be back but just visiting!
Its good to be at SDA.
“Two things to keep in mind. Marxists prefer to destroy economies, …”
You can stop there. All Marx ever really wanted was to destroy or at least discredit the values and achievements of the culture in which he was a parasite. The rest of it was blather to cover up the nature and limits of his aims.
but but… we are supposed to live off native art and twit/clit/lit. Not actual “things??
ivbinconned;
I was there too. Manning had the internal Reform vote on whether to move into eastern Canada. I voted no but was frankly shocked when the vote was released at 95% wanting a national Reform Party. I could not believe that number.
As the full realization of the Liebel win sinks in and as we see how they will reassert their rape of the West the drive for a Western Party will start all over. Top that with the jury rigging of future elections and the new fight will be difficult.
CT – largely agreed.
Those who scream loudest about diversifying are rarely interested in keeping what has worked. Growing up in the boonies, I like to use keeping the house warm as an analogy. There was no natural gas available in the area where I grew up. We were tied into the electrical grid but there were long links through avalanche and heavy snow regions, so we expected a couple of weeks each year without power (with the supply becoming more and more stable as time progressed).
We started off with wood heat. Wood was cheap and readily available, but it takes a lot of sweat-equity to have a woodpile ready, split, and dry in time for winter. You’re planning years ahead if you want dry wood and you can’t fall behind in the work. You can get years ahead in your work, which means you can have more play time later. You’re also totally independent, and whether you’re warm or cold in the winter depends on you. Localized gas or chainoil shortages affect you very little because you’re planning so far ahead.
Some in town gave up on wood and got an oil or propane furnace. If they had one then they didn’t need to plan years ahead anymore about getting, cutting, drying and stacking wood. They had a tank which needed filling once or twice a year (at a high cost when it was needed). Depending on the type they could be quite independent of the general power grid, but many had a gas or diesel generator because if their furnace depended upon electricity. If you don’t watch your volume and your tank runs dry then you could have a few chilly hours to days depending on how quickly you can get a refill (or whether you could use a jerry-can or 20 lb propane cylinder as a backup). Much less planning was required, so most went the way of more convenience accepting the risk of whether their fuel would be available when they need it.
The government built some houses for teachers coming into the community. They were built with electric heat as the only supply to the houses, and tied into the communal power grid. The people who designed and supplied the houses would never live in them. During a sustained winter power outage the teachers would have frozen to death if not for others in the town opening their houses to them. The electric-only houses were totally dependent upon outside supply. When that outside supply failed, there was no backup.
The basis of any economy is taking something deemed to have little value, and making something that people are willing to buy. This is the wood-heat portion. The US economy started as an agricultural, mining, fish, and forestry economy. Only when there was a lot of wealth around could the economy diversify. That didn’t mean that they stopped growing, mining, fishing, and forestry – it meant that those who still did those jobs were so productive that they could support the rest of the economy by fulfilling the basic needs. Textiles and basic tool-making and steelworking machinery were next to develop. These are the gas and oil heating portions of the economy – some dependence on outside supply but still a lot of flexibility. High tech came much later, but at no point were the more traditional jobs outlawed. Today’s just-in-time high tech economy is the electric grid writ large: total dependence upon outside supply but much more efficient for the individual when everything works.
When the basic needs are met and the cost of other production is cheap (labour, power, cost to bulk-move materials) then the economy expands on its own because nature abhors a vacuum, and free people will try many ways to work themselves rich.
Command economies look good on paper to people who think that complexity is better than simplicity. They can’t see that it’s the very simplicity of the wheel and lever that make them indispensable, and that Rube Goldberg machines don’t work better than a simple lever; they add more places where the system can break (and the end result of the machine would not be achieved). When times are good the command economy can do OK. When times get rough, there is no back-up because they’ve usually been designed out as “not needed anymore”. Taking entire components of the economy and shutting them down “because we don’t need them anymore” is the same as bricking up your chimney. If the power fails and you still have a wood stove then you can still be nice and warm. If you’ve bricked up all the chimneys and sold all of the furnaces then you face death for not only you, but everyone in town.
C_Miner;
Great read and post!
I think that you are right that if the Liberals under the puppet will try to destroy the western economy like they did under Trudeau a western separation party will rise again.
You are also right about the Liberals jury rigging future elections as the Laurentian Elite will never let a western based party get hold of the levers of power in Ottawa again unless the leader is a liberal progressive in disguise like Joe Who.