Canada - Energy East Pipeline & Quibbling

The usual perps are taking sides and slinging mud, which is NOT what our economy needs right now.

Jokers the right: Brad Wall and other anti-Trudeau, anti-noncons, etc.

Jokers to the Left: Anyone trying to get the pipeline built now, but have to put up with right winger antics, since it will show how big of a fail Harper was if it actually gets built now.


Yes, my biased is revealed.


Now there are idiotic statements about equalization payments punted towards Quebec, since that province is not friendly politically about pipelines for several reasons, but the cons aren't helping by insulting Quebec with ignorance and claims they should stop benefiting from oil revenue (that is not part of equalization payments if it comes from the provinces).

Equalization payment facts:

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Equalization is financed entirely from Government of Canada general revenues. The provinces are uninvolved in the transfer except to the extent that they may qualify for Equalization payments; provincial governments do not contribute financially to the Equalization program, and each province’s ability to raise tax revenues is unaffected by the transfer.

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What do conservatives do? Make claims like this:

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Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall noted that Quebec municipalities were benefiting from $10 billion in transfer payments as part of Canada’s equalization system. In the Canadian federation, equalization transfers money from the wealthiest provinces to so-called "have-not" provinces to ensure that all parts of the country have adequate resources for public services. Calgary Conservative MP Jason Kenney, a former federal cabinet minister who took to his Twitter account on Thursday, noting that oil production generates billions of dollars in transfer payments to Quebec

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The stupid, it burns, and I'm so sick of it.

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