Keep flappin’ those gums, Mulcair;
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said on Monday comments made by federal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair about the country’s resources sectors are “very, very divisive.” […]
Wall also weighed in via social media, posting on Twitter on Monday morning, “If @ThomasMulcair thinks a strong resource sector is a “disease”, what is his “cure”? Higher resource taxes? NDP needs to explain” and that, “Resources have been the cure not the problem, NDP.” The remarks were in response to comments made by Mulcair on Saturday when he said that, because of the way it raises the value of the Canadian dollar, other parts of the country are paying a price for the prosperity enjoyed by natural resource sectors.
Mulcair pointed to the oilsands in Alberta as a case in point. “It’s by definition the ‘Dutch disease,’ ” Mulcair said Saturday on the CBC Radio show, The House, referring to what happened to the Netherlands economy in the 1960s after vast deposits of natural gas were discovered in the nearby North Sea.
13 Saskatchewan MP’s send their regards!
Update:
You can send Nathan Cullen your regards here.
Mulcair has a serious infection of French Disease.
His Cabinet is as deep as puddle in a parking lot on a hot July day and he likes to run his big mouth thinking it makes him look smart.
He would be much more comfortable living in France.
Mulcair is fighting for his miserable existence. After the next federal election, he will lose at least 75-85% of his Quebec seats and the NDP will be a small little insignificant party.
To reverse Brad Walls quote – Thomas Mulcair thinks a strong resource sector is a disease, what is the cure – a strong resource is the cure and NDP is the disease.
I got yer cure, right here: Western separation.
Raissi et al. demonstrate in a paper that the “Dutch Disease” may not in fact be reality: “Our estimation results, using the real value of oil production, rent or reserves as a proxy for resource endowment, reveal that oil abundance has a positive effect on both long run income levels and short run economic growth. While we accept that oil rich countries could benefit more from their natural wealth by adopting growth and welfare enhancing policies and institutions, we challenge the common view that oil abundance affects economic growth negatively.”
Cavalcanti, Mohaddes, Raissi. “Growth, Development and Natural Resources: New Evidence Using a Heterogeneous Panel Analysis”, 2011.
Other papers shedding doubt on the validity of the resource curse paradox (see Alexeev and Conrad (2009), Arezki and van der Ploeg (2007), Cavalcanti et al. (2011), and van der Ploeg and Poelhekke (2010)).
Typical left, always willing to mess with the economy, damned be the consequences. What I would like to know is where all those people I know who travel to Alberta every few weeks would be working now?
Raissi et al. demonstrate in a paper that the “Dutch Disease” may not in fact be reality: “Our estimation results, using the real value of oil production, rent or reserves as a proxy for resource endowment, reveal that oil abundance has a positive effect on both long run income levels and short run economic growth. While we accept that oil rich countries could benefit more from their natural wealth by adopting growth and welfare enhancing policies and institutions, we challenge the common view that oil abundance affects economic growth negatively.”
Cavalcanti, Mohaddes, Raissi. “Growth, Development and Natural Resources: New Evidence Using a Heterogeneous Panel Analysis”, 2011.
Other papers shedding doubt on the validity of the resource curse paradox (see Alexeev and Conrad (2009), Arezki and van der Ploeg (2007), Cavalcanti et al. (2011), and van der Ploeg and Poelhekke (2010)).
Typical left, always willing to mess with the economy, damned be the consequences. What I would like to know is where all those people I know who travel to Alberta every few weeks would be working now?
The NDP cured Saskatchewan for many years. This new disease of the conservatives feels a whole lot better.
I forced myself to listen to that CBC love-in to see where Tommie the Kommie’s head is at on economics.
I was not disappointed. He’s just another text-book socialist who is economically illiterate – or he realises Alberta/Sask’s energy sector has saved Canada from a global economic meltdown/recession and continues to prop up the gluttonous over spending of eastern soviet provinces and he is very good at jerking off CBC-lobotomized viewers who have the same socialist economic dyslexia as he does.
I can see the Dips will be lucky to elect 3 seats west of Rosedale.
And what do we in Alberta hear from his (sister in politics) Alison REDford? yep that’s correct NOTHING. I have a DEAL for you folks in Saskatchewan.
We will give you Red Ali,Joe Who,Retired Justice Major and senile old Peter Loghead for Brad Wall. OK I will throw in Tap-dancing Ted Morton also. Please
Mulcair exhibits a combination of enviro-nazism and the politics of envy………really with the same goal….totalitarianism……
Translation. He’s lamenting that the folks in Alberta don’t vote NDP.
When did Lorne Gunter move over to Sun from Postmedia? I’ll miss him in the Post.
Apparently, Muclair has no need for Alberta’s filthy lucre.
It’s time to pull away the hand that feeds him … time for a serious downgrade on the transfer payments from Alberta.
Ont.@Que. don’t like the oil sands. The NDP hates the oil sands. It’s time to cut them free. They don’t like us so we should just go our own way and let them have their own way.
You would think that a new leader of a party with minimal representation in a large portion of this country would be trying to “reach out” to those regions in order to gain some seats. Broadening your base is such an elementary lesson in Politics 101. Yet Mulcair seems to have caught the same disease that has bedeviled the Liberals for over 30 years. Fine with me.
You know what? Every time I see/hear that guy, one word pops into my head: Evil.
He’s a frightening man.
First response,
the leader of Canadian socialists, the french citizen, the freeloading idiot is, why there is the prosaic term of “asshole”. He should have it patented.
The question remains, is this character going to suck in the ignorant masses or will there be more sensible people to send him to pasture.
A strong exporting manufacturing economy is good for Canada while a strong exporting oil economy is bad for Canada. I get it. He hates the West just like that repugnant ba$tard Trudeau.
The one nice thing about electing the NDP is that Alberta and the rest of the West that want to go along for the ride could be free at last.
All of the above.
Mulcair is just spouting the usual Marxist socialist claptrap about wanting equality of poverty.
“that (Mulcair) would label that as a problem is very disconcerting, and I hope he changes his tune.”
On the contrary,Mr. Wall! I hope he DOESN’T change his tune. Canadians have to know how radical this commie SOB is,and NEVER let him get near the PM’s Office.
The NDP in power federally means Canada become Greece,in one term.
We may not like it, but we Canadians are hewers of wood and drawers of water.
The last time I heard a figure, the resource sector was by far and away the largest economic component in Canada. Is that ignorant boob Mulcair aware of that fact?
What is this “Dutch disease” he blathers on about? I lived and worked in the Netherlands from 1971 to 1977 and
it was a fairly decent well run and prosperous country. I heard a great deal about Dutch politics (a favorite sport in that country, right up there with soccer)
and never heard any regrets about their oil production; nor the phrase “Dutch disease”.
But I like Mulcair. Jack Layton was just smart enough and just charismatic enough to be a bit of a nuisance.
Mulcair is neither smart nor charismatic. He bleats like an angry sheep protesting the injustice of a world full of wolves.
He promises to bring us a Tory government for a long long time. Especially when the populace realise that the NDP have embraced Quebec separatists.
Fortunately we have Ontario and Quebec doing everything they can to keep the loonie low, which balances things out.
Good on Brad Wall – you Sask people have a leader to be proud of.
Out here we have received Nurse Redford’s take: /\!!/\
As for Mulcair describing the West’s prosperity as a “disease” it is consistent with my view of him as a hotheaded guttersnipe.
Harper must be quitely chuckling in anticipation of the conveyor belt of clangers that will be emerging regularly from the bearded one.
Since resource sector wealth is apparently bad for an economy is it fair to assume Quebec and Ontario will stop selling hydro electric power and mineral resources to the US?
While it is a good idea that more processing is done with our natural resources here in Canada, I doubt very much that the left, left wing of the NDP would allow any new refineries etc to be built (and if they did they would demand that those refineries be built in Ontario or Quebec for the jobs!). So Mulcair needs to do some re-thinking of how exactly processing will be done without building new infrastructure (which will be held up for decades by the environmental groups).
Secondly, where were the NDP when the CWB monopoly effectively STOPPED any further processing of wheat and barley on the Prairies and instead shipped the raw product overseas. Unlike canola which has oil-crushing capacity right here in SK, I didn’t see the CWB and its NDP supporters insisting that more processing of wheat and barley be done in SK, AB and MB!!!
DrD:
Sounds like you’re onto something.
‘Look at us. We have clean energy for you, not like that filthy oil from Alberta.’
Heard that same smug superior attitude from a Manitoba resident recently.
So quebec is going to quit exporting electricity and asbestos?
And that’s why Zimbabwe has the world’s strongest economy…
Way back instead of shipping western grain out of Curchill, Vancouver, and Prince Rupert, Canada shipped it out of Quebec City so western farmers could pay for the Seaway. Now that’s how the economics of western colonization is supposed to work.
If he feels so strongly about it, he should insist that the west separates along with Quebec, and then we will all be happy.
“I got yer cure, right here: Western separation” – up to a month ago your point had a certain validity.
Then the moronic Albertans voted Red. Swallowed the Blub and Wail hook line and sinker.
Agree with nick above but must remind Mike M. of the feelings across the country. Alberta is a pariah in the eyes of many throughout the Canada. Look at the attitudes of the people in northern BC regarding the proposed pipeline. To Hell with the opportunities offered to the youth in the region. The chiefs would rather put those damn flowerpots on their heads and bitch! They could care less if their sons remain on welfare and their sisters and daughters head for the cities for the ‘opportunities’.
Look east beyond Saskatchewan (another pariah in the making) to Upper and Lower Canada. The West was originally created to serve the East and that attitude remains.
They see greed on the part of the workers in Alberta (and Sask). We see initiative and motivation to achieve.
If Mulcair and his minions can exploit this envy we are doomed. It will be Alberta and Saskatchewan exiting confederation, not Quebec.
Ironic – Charest is currently pushing for expanded exploration for mineral deposits in Northern Quebec to expand their share of mineral resources shipped to China, while Tommie the Commie spouts his anti resource development in the west drivel, with his Quebec based caucus. I’d be asking where the “west” begins for Quebec, the Ontario border?
I suggest the media ask Tommie the Commie that, next scrum.
Want to know what a national NDP govt & PM would look like? The model is Obama & Co.
If Ontario wants to improve its financial fortunes it should invest in up to date technologies and try and improve the dismal productivity of its manufacturing sector instead of relying on a low CDN dollar to bolster exports. Billions of dollars pour into Ontario in the form of federal tax dollars. A large percentage of these monies are then spent employing federal government workers and maintaining federal government institutions. No other province in Canada gets this added injection into its economy. Yet still Ontario whines and thinks it is being given the short end of the stick.
Philm @ 10:45 interesting question, I also enjoy Lorne Gunter’s columns. One reason maybe he was not following the new “edititorial mush” at post media.
Started to feel the typical appeasement to the Toronto readership even though why they would move from profitability to the Star situation I don’t know. Of course if the Post keeps moving in their present editorial drive for a new base they may find themselves in the Toronto Star seat.
Just thinking; Cheers
the last vestiges of independence must be brow beat out of the west,
that is why there is nary a peep from red-ali,
socialism needs utter and unquestioning loyalty to the elite
their dictates must be accepted and acted upon with drone-like antipathy
but they’ll be there to wipe the spittle from the corners of our mouths
that is how much they love and appreciate our obedience
you have a new family now alberta
For about the last 30 or 40 years, any eastern politician who has pitted himself against the west has had incredible success; about 5 Liberal PMs can attest to that. This is simply the most obvious path to take Mulcair to the top.
The energy industry is a huge job creator both within the energy sector and in many other industries that are possible because of fossil fuels. Autos, airlines, home heating, ect.
Are you wondering why a labor party leader would be against job creation?
Also, why is Mulcair focusing on the oil sands? Why is it his pet peeve?
But it is not just Mulcair. Whats with Allison Redford? And Dix? In fact, most politicians. How to make sense of it all? Affordable, reliable energy is why we enjoyed great lifestyles the last 60 years. Before that life sucked big time!
It all makes sense if;
Socialism is not about it’s worker’s prosperity, it is about control of the masses.
But traditional socialism and communism has a bad reputation because they did not work.
Environmentalism was hijacked to try and achieve the same goals of a socialistic ruling class.
The ruling class can not easily control prosperous, self reliant people.
Seriously, please tell me where I am wrong with any the following:
In 1989 the Berlin Wall collapsed and the failures of socialism and communism were out in the open for all the world to see. (1)
The ruling class, leftist types had to find a plan ‘B’. Hey!, how about we infiltrate and take over the environmental movement? Many, many advantages.
– we can shame the peasants into going along with the scam by playing on their environmental guilt.
– we will use some kind of wacky science. Most will not take the time to look into the science and the scheme will be in place before we are outed. (2)
– we need a villain .. oil companies. Perfect!
– we need the media on side. That’s easy,.. arts majors are easily duped when it comes to science. And besides, since the printing press was invented media has always been about political control not about reporting the real story.
– we need a collection plate for this para religious movement, .. Green Taxes !!
– we need a mechanism to allow the main operatives to become extremely wealthy, … carbon credits, speaking engagements !! (3)
– we have to be able to quickly brain wash the children, …. the public school system.
– we have to be able to camouflage our socialism, … “green” legislation!
– we have to bias weather stations to the warm side, … asphalt, BBQs, vehicle radiators!! (4)
– we have to, most importantly find a substance that encompass the oil companies as bad, the atmosphere as the ultimate enviro worry and something that can easily be mistaken for a poison, …. CARBON DIOXIDE !! Fossil fuels make CO2. CO2 goes into the atmosphere. Many people will mistake carbon DIoxide for deadly carbon MONoxide. Perfect!
– if we, we! control carbon dioxide, we are controlling carbon. Control carbon and we control the world, for every thing we do involves carbon. Whether manufacture, transportation, consumption, ect .. our lifestyles period !! Our well being is dependent on carbon and on carbon dioxide – an essential gas for life on earth. (5)
– but most of all, we have to instill a sense of panic. How about we claim ‘Because of mankind, this is the first time the earth has experienced climate change’?, even it that means lying about the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age. (6)
– we have to have many scientists on board as they are the ones that the public has always seen as reliable and without bias. If they are pushing the panic button also the citizenry will find it easier to become believers. After all they are scientists. Government grants and contracts are a huge, if not the only source of their funding, especially those at universities. If funding favors “research” and “results” that promote climate alarmism many scientists will feel compelled to go along with the scam. To do otherwise could be career ending due to a lack of funds and prominence. How else can one explain a “scientific” paper claiming that dinosaur’s flatulence caused global warming back then? (7)
And so it came to be. Climate alarmism; The ultimate ‘Ruling Class’ tool.
No one should doubt Mulcair’s intellectual acuity.
Nor should anyone doubt that he is a COMMUNIST to the core, with a dual citizen’S European streak of socialism bred into his being.
TOMMIE THE COMMIE, EH?
Have we not got a leader in western Canada with the guts to tell the east to piss off. We have put up with this s@it for over 100 years. It’s time to stop paying for those lazy ass’s in the east. They are not workers they are takers. When the east wants something they screw the west.
It’s important for maintaining the equality of all Canadians that should any region get ahead of the rest economically, we proceed to rip into them.
I like it when NDPee guys talk like this. It reveals their true level of intelligence.
So long as everybody knows Mulcair is a tax-and-spend freak who can’t do simple arithmetic, its all good. Its when they manage to hide that like Bob Rae that they become dangerous.
Example from Ontario headlines this week, Premier Dad intends to cut doctor’s pay to save money for the province. Doctor’s pay makes up 20% of total Ontario cost for healthcare. What’s the other 80%? We don’t know, nobody is saying. All we know is that reducing that twenty cents of every healthcare dollar by 8% is the Big Savings that Dalton has in mind.
Why not cut nurses too? Because they’re union workers. Why not cut some costs at OHIP and hospitals? Union workers.
What will actually -happen- if he cuts back doctor’s pay? Two things.
First, -zero- money will be saved, because a variation of 1% in something the size of Ontario’s healthcare bill is pretty much noise. The money will be swallowed up by the manpower required to make the changes.
Second, it will p1ss the doctors off even more in a system which has been carefully designed to p1ss people off. Quality of care will decline by the cube of the pay cut.
The total Provincial budget is $96 billion bucks. Half of that goes to health care. The only money the Liberals can come up with to save from all that is some pocket change they are going to rip-off from doctors. You know, the people who actually -provide- the care.
Thomas Mulcair will be doing the same thing to the energy industry, but turbo boosted with nitrous injection.
Ron and Joe, exactly.
I emailed Cullen and told him what I thought.
@ CRB at May 8, 2012 11:53 AM
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Look at the attitudes of the people in northern BC ”
Whoa there big boy, the people in northern BC are fine with the pipeline and the economic engine driving BC. All the tree huggers are in southern and central BC and only show up once in a while to protest anything/everything. Check your map. Everything N of Prince George is pro-development and gainfully employed in patch related activity. Also supporting the rest of the province although we get damned little in return.
@ ron in kelowna ∴ at May 8, 2012 12:38 PM
Well written and mirrors this which aired a few days ago :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ-4gnNz0vc
It’s sad to think it is 2012 and for some reason we believe we as a society are now smarter than past generations. All the indicators show we are wrong and probably easier to brainwash than our forefathers.
Hey guess what killed most of North America’s once thriving elm trees?
That’s right, European Elm Bark Beetle (Scruffus Mulcl…. I mean Scolytus multistriatus) can’t help but spread Dutch Elm disease everywhere it’s found hiding under the bark sucking the living juices out of it’s host .
Well Done Brad Wall. We’re damn proud of our leader here in Saskland!!!
I’m glad our new Chief Socialist opened his mouth. He made it crystal clear what part of Canada he’ll do things for and what part of Canada he has no use for.
If he were to ever become the PM, God forgive, I’ll be one of the first to sign up for my card in the Western Separatist Party that will surely follow shortly after.
You know how bad it is here in AB when the premier has yet to respond to the comment by the fool tom mulligan. She let Brad Wall from SK do the talking. Her silence speaks volumes.
Phantom, doctors can and will pickup and leave Ontario en masse. I know an ER doctor and he is very in tune with what jurisdictions pay the highest and have the lowest taxes and says if the situation ever changes… he’s gone. Completely portable job. They need doctors everywhere. I don’t feel sorry for Ontario at all. Not at all.
Thank God for Brad Wall. At least we have one good Premier.