Canada’s productivity problem isn’t that big if we exclude oil

[WiltonRanch]

As a big Muppets fan, I take offense to you comparing Chuck to a muppet. Unlike chuck, they are intentionally funny and entertaining.
Their humor is highly intellectual compared to anything coming out of chuck.

Although I have said in the past that he does remind me a lot of doctor Bunsen honeydew. Always so confident, always so wrong, even as the science experiment goes horribly wrong and the world comes crashing down on him.

Don’t forget Beaker. Who’s Beaker?

[blackpowder]

Prof Bunsen Honeydews' assistant.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Don’t forget Beaker. Who’s Beaker?

I think all of us who engage with him are playing the part of beaker. Unwitting victims to his megalomaniacal pot stirring. Then when it blows up in his face, he's already receded a safe distance and hides out for a few days until the Carnage has been cleaned up. Rinse and repeat.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Prof Bunsen Honeydews' assistant.

Isn't Chuck's real life hapless assistant agstar?

[blackpowder]

No idea. But I feel like Statler and Waldorf

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Dr. Bunsen Honeydew seems to have left the conversation.

Almost as if he doesn't want to answer some awkward questions.

[WiltonRanch]

Honeydew where are you?

[blackpowder]

Nothing but a ghost. A spook. Smoke.

[chuckChuck]

It seems as if the pretend libertarians are still struggling to say something of substance? Just more juvenile posts about nothing?

Norway saved like true fiscal conservatives. Not the rip and ship it types in Alberta who spend it all and saved none of the one time resource revenue.

And then leave a massive cleanup bill for the next generations of taxpayers?

Generous private profits then the public pays for the cleanup!

It's the Alberta UCP way!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Once again chuck, Norway is a sovereign country. In complete control of its own financial destiny, Alberta is a province within a confederation which implements income redistribution.
We have been through this multiple times before.

Run the numbers without transfer payments over the decades if you want to compare the two.