Equalization payments

[cakadu]

Let's hope we can find some balance before there it becomes too costly to get the balance back.

On another note emrald - I see to recall you asking if I were around on the 16th and the date has come and gone. Between lambing and dealing with committee work, my days are running into one another. Sorry about that - I hope we can do it another time and soon.

L

[cakadu]

Will contact you when I am going down that way again and maybe we can get together for coffee somewhere along the route.

[cowman]

I wonder how many decent roads/infrastructure we might be able to afford if we weren't sending $12 billion a year into the black hole called Ottawa where it goes down the pipeline to Quebec?
I heard on a news program that Saskatchewan and BC are soon to become "have provinces"! Due to increased oil and gas revenue! Which is a very good thing.
I would assume the feds would view this as a very positive thing as it gives them a whole new source of bribe money for Quebec! Why they just might be able to keep the old shell game rolling for a few more years!
The only really sad thing about the west "harvesting" our natural resources is that we have a very large parasite taking the real cream and when the oil is gone we will be another Atlantic Canada? Our provincial governments have sold us out and they truly should be ashamed. Hopefully the latest little black adventures in Ottawa will finally wake some people up here in the west?