Ed Stelmach’s cousin down under

“The government will not be intimidated by these negotiating tactics,” the spokesman said.

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We will never surrender….I mean retreat….I mean vacillate….I mean, we were taken out of context…

How do you say “John Galt” in Australian?

This sort of nonsense if partly why I moved back to SK from AB. The balance of free market enterprise and government regulation of the oil & gas sector here in SK is just about right. The Federal side is another issue which I won’t start a flame war here.
You can see the capital fleeing AB for SK and the activity here in SE SK reflects it.

Dan, I’ve long said that the best thing to happen to Sask was Ed Stelmach.

Saskabush should be liable for Stelmach’s salary and expenses for the same reason the federal conservatives should rightly be picking up Bob Rae’s tab, right now.

Red Kevin Rudd is like Red Eddy. The fact is people do see whats being done. The fact the Rudd people leave out is people are mad at them not the company.
Just ask Eddy. While you can. Frankly even college kids are going to be voting Wild rose. The ex Conservatives have fallen off the train of production. To the hay cart of Socialism.
He hasn’t figured out yet most folks can’t give themselves a free car every year or paid vacations besides less taxes . A 40% raise at that.
People are counting the days till we see his back side.
Screw with peoples lives for Ideology, & this is your recompense.
Right Ed?
JMO

Who does Rudd think he is? Bareback Obama?

Dan, you moved back to SK for all the wrong reasons. Stelmach is a fool – yes, but apparently even fools can learn and AB is rapidly moving in the right direction.
Meanwhile, you moved back to SK and it’s June 16 Tax Freedom Day from AB with it’s May 19 Tax Freedom Day.
That June 16 Tax Freedom Day in SK is the latest date in Canada this year – yes, you are the highest taxed province in Confederation, behind even Quebec.

Rete yeh but is a lot better than under the NDP. We do have more economic activity and our taxes used to be worse. I was shocked to see my provincial tax rate this year the lowest I have ever paid. The Fed rate is lower than when I was 18. Yeh I’m broke but still. In years past my Prov tax was 68% of my Federal. Not half as advertised. I used to write the number on my income tax.

“Dan, I’ve long said that the best thing to happen to Sask was Ed Stelmach.”
Well, maybe the 2nd best thing.
The best thing was turfing the socialists, hopefully for good. Just listening to the likes of Judy Junor spewing fear-mongering nonsense should be enough to persuade anyone to vote for the Sask Party in the next election.

amazing how many conservatives i know here in AB want to expropriate oilsands cash to get “our fair share”.

‘amazing how many conservatives i know here in AB want to expropriate oilsands cash to get “our fair share” ‘
.shel -those are not Conservatives, those are progressive——(supply noun, or just leave blank and use Progressive as a stand alone noun). There are a big batch of “conservatives’ here, in the Yukon who are bright pink. Left over PC’s and new found ‘reformed’ gument seat fillers.

The idea that Stelmach caused the downturn in Alberta is only accurate in a very minor sense. The only companies that shut down exploration were already planning to move that money elsewhere. Encana had plans to invest in the Gulf of Mexico(wonder how that’s workin?), CNRL had plans to focus on oilsands, EOG was in the process of moving resources into the Bakken play. Ed’s cash grab played right into the hands of those companies’ public relations people, who blamed him for the lay offs in the conventional oil and gas fields. Stelmach is an idiot, but he didn’t create the bubble that developed a leak, in Alberta.
Much of Alberta oil and gas investment relies on revenue from its natural gas production. The market for gas is very weak, so many companies are pushing investment in “designer” projects, such as Bakken. EOG spent a fortune on a few wells in northest BC, with no hope of ever turning a profit on the project. That doesn’t seem to matter, because their stock price has been doing very well.
The bottom line is, there might never be the same demand for conventional oil and gas, as there was while the Alberta economy was in full swing. Right now, a lot of people need to think twice, before buying a big house, or putting a lift kit on the 4X4. I don’t care if they bring Ralph Klein back, Alberta’s economy will keep shrinking. There might be a few mini-booms, but that’s it.

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