Alberta no longer holds economic bragging rights
Updated Sat. Mar. 7 2009 9:20 PM ET
The Canadian Press
EDMONTON -- Alberta's bragging rights as Canada's economic engine are fading and Premier Ed Stelmach says people seem to be a little grumpy about it.
"Everybody's saying `Ooh! This province is doing better than we are,"' Stelmach said. "Man, I don't know what it is that somebody does better and it's like everybody gets concerned."
The title itself sets the article up as an envy piece. "Bragging" rights? I thought Ontario was the economic engine of Canada?
From the comments:
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@Maureen,
Alberta does NOT have an excellent education system. Coming from Ontario and teaching here, the standards are ridiculously low, expectations of performance the same, and knowledge of the outside world less than the much maligned Torontonian child's.
You guys dig money out of the ground for free...doesn't take much intelligence to do that.
If this person really is a teacher in Alberta, I hope they move back to Ontario. This is the common attitude of lefties...Alberta hit the jackpot, even a monkey could run Alberta, etc. Well, how come Saskatchewan is just now getting it's engines running? How did Alberta get to be debt free, without a provincial sales tax? They don't care. Us red necked, bible thumping, trailer dwellers couldn't possibly have an excellent education system. Hard work and an independent attitude has nothing to do with success. You see, they can't ALLOW us to be successful. It goes against everything they think is wrong with society today.
Here is a prime example of lefty thinking:
The Conservative government is killing a small program for Canadian documentaries as it spends $40 billion to stimulate the economy.
The move to cancel the $1.5-million program that helps fund thousands of projects has sparked outrage in the film industry.
...... "And both those films became, each in their time, the top grossing feature documentaries ever made in this country," he said.
Montreal producer Eve Lamont made her first feature-length documentary with a $20,000 subsidy from the fund. "Without this fund, my career would never have taken off," she said.
So, did the producer pay back the subsidy? Why does she DESERVE taxpayers money? That's what she is saying, that she deserved this money. Reading the article, it sounds like producers are running the funding and rewarding themselves with our money.
It's not about Alberta, it's about lefties dislike of conservative values. They don't want us to succeed because it proves that socialism doesn't and ultimately can't work. They yell about the "dirty tarsands" while Ontario's coal burning plants are way more polluting. Didn't Dalton say he was going to close them down? How come eco-nuts are giving him a free ride? Alberta will spend over $2 Billion for carbon capture technology, and what do we hear? It's untested, and might not work! Right, like those new light bulbs are such a good idea, or ecofuels? Maybe now that Obama is supporting carbon capture the lefties will shut up.
Don't envy Alberta, you see, it's not the Canadian sand we have that makes our province so great, it's the people and their can do attitudes. We do not sit on our rumps and expect money to be given to us by the government, we get out and do the work!
It is lefties who are dividing our country. Look at where the lefties get votes, in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, the rest of the people in this country are just like Albertans, they work hard, support their families, and build their communities. Maybe lefties should try it sometime, instead of forming committees to see who can get the most money from the government. Don't waste your time with envy, it just makes you look foolish and petty.
