Alberta NDP demands Justice Minister be fired over ties to Sam Mraiche

[chuckChuck]

What is going on federally that is a bad as in Alberta?

Is there an investigation by the RCMP like in Alberta and wrong full dismal law suit by the fired CEO AHS at for whistle blowing?

No there isn't!

So unless you have a case with credible independent evidence you are just blowing partisan smoke!

Of course at all levels of governments there are stupid decisions and wasted money across all party lines.

But corruption and fraud is much more serious issue.

Alberta has some of the highest profile damaging allegations of fraud and corruption across the country.

Doug Ford also had a lot of insider developers ready for the green belt development. Another case.


And many of you support tRump who is mother of all corrupt Presidents who is making himself and his family and billionaire friends and supporters even more wealthy. But you say nothing about tRump?

So as usual many of you you are giant fat hippocrits!

[Hamloc]

“Justice Minister Mickey Amery has tried yet again to shield his best friend and relative Sam Mraiche, as well as himself, from investigation and prosecution,”

The shit is hitting the fan in Alberta over the healthcare corruption scandal as the Justice Minister is closely connected to Sam Mraiche and in a giant conflict of interest. Its not looking good! Danny is going to have find another big distraction!

It must be time to pass some more bills that allow her to impose her social conservative ideology on schools, healthcare and municipal governments. Find something fast! LOL

Is it time to bully some more LGBQT+ folks and trans kids and people? And tell them how to live their life?

It seems to me the last time you brought up Sam Mraiche you were attempting to connect him to Danielle Smith, now it is Mickey Amery. I certainly agree that Sam Mraiche appears to be a less than honest business person and should certainly be investigated and prosecuted if charges warrant.

Chuck2, your not an Albertan, why is it you continually attack Alberta? As an Albertan I think what Mark Carney is doing will have much greater negative future side affects on my children and grand children than anything The UCP has done or is doing. If Mickey Emery is found to be outside the law I hope he charged and is fired. As for Alberta politics, the latest Leger poll, released one day ago, has the UCP at 53% and the NDP at 36%. Enjoy your day.

[chuckChuck]

What exactly is Carney doing that will negatively affect Alberta? Danny Smith was all smiles when they signed the MOU and she openly praised Carney.

Oil production went up under Trudeau. He built a pipeline to to west coast! The man you guys wrongly claim "killed the oil industry"!

And Carney is openly saying that more resource projects will be encouraged in an effort to build Canada's economy against tRump's threats.

He is attracting fiscal and social Conservatives with his economic plans and bridge building. Albertan conservatives as well.

According to 338 Canada poll of polls Liberals are even polling well on the Prairies at 37 % vs 48% for the CPC

I fail to see that voters see him as a threat since polls show he is currently around 100 seats ahead of the CPC nationally.

Quite opposite he seems to be a leader who is finding wide support and even significant support in Alberta.

He got a canola deal with China. He made a deal with India to sell billions in Saskatchewan uranium.

So your complaining seems out of step with reality.

Alberta has always been a conservative province with their own Alberta first agenda. They seem to think they are hard done by because they have to live with the rest of the country who doesnt rely on a none time resource sector.

It's all just politics of the oil and gas industry that feels threatned even though they are richest province per capita because of it.

[Hamloc]

What exactly is Carney doing that will negatively affect Alberta? Danny Smith was all smiles when they signed the MOU and she openly praised Carney.

Oil production went up under Trudeau. He built a pipeline to to west coast! The man you guys wrongly claim "killed the oil industry"!

And Carney is openly saying that more resource projects will be encouraged in an effort to build Canada's economy against tRump's threats.

He is attracting fiscal and social Conservatives with his economic plans and bridge building. Albertan conservatives as well.

According to 338 Canada poll of polls Liberals are even polling well on the Prairies at 37 % vs 48% for the CPC

I fail to see that voters see him as a threat since polls show he is currently around 100 seats ahead of the CPC nationally.

Quite opposite he seems to be a leader who is finding wide support and even significant support in Alberta.

He got a canola deal with China. He made a deal with India to sell billions in Saskatchewan uranium.

So your complaining seems out of step with reality.

Alberta has always been a conservative province with their own Alberta first agenda. They seem to think they are hard done by because they have to live with the rest of the country who doesnt rely on a none time resource sector.

It's all just politics of the oil and gas industry that feels threatned even though they are richest province per capita because of it.

If you had accurately read my post I said “negative future side affects on my children and grand children.”
Carney is actually projecting higher federal non Covid deficits than Justin Trudeau by far with no end in sight.
Carney like Trump believes in far greater government participation and control in the economy.
There is no doubt future taxes will have to increase to pay for the planned future build of the military by Carney.
Carney is cutting funding for Agricultural research.
As for the MOU Premier Smith keeps promoting, I disagree with the increased carbon tax and the mandatory CCS project, I think the MOU in its present form is a bad deal for Alberta.
You mention the canola deal, it amounted to 600000 tonnes in a one time purchase, realistically just enough to get a foothold for Chinese EV’s to come to Canada. To my knowledge the tariff reduction on canola does not go beyond 2026, I could be wrong. Actually the changes to the renewable fuel mandate in the States raised canola prices more.
Carney is a sleazy snake doing back room deals to get MP’s to cross the floor to get a majority by stealth.
Carney is still pushing forward with the federal gun but back with the only province that is on board being Quebec.
I see little difference and no improvement with Carney over Trudeau, same eastern centric policies, Canada still run by Quebec.

[shtferbrains]

"production went up under Trudeau. He built a pipeline to to west coast! The man you guys wrongly claim "killed the oil industry"!"

Chuck, it's not just the O&G industry that got neglected since the LPC started running things, it's the whole economy.

We lag most of the G20 by 30% on productive over the last decade.
We can't get investment here because Canada has a well earned reputation that we don't build anything here anymore.

You keep repeating the same CBC spin over and over like you actually believe it?

Canadian’s are unable to afford basic necessities because the economy hasn't grown since the Liberals came to power.

It's like Stockholm syndrome.
You keep asking for more?

[shtferbrains]

Everyone has seen it.

1993 to 2003 was the great Jean Chrétien who also liked to screw the west and blame all his problems on the USA.
84 to 93 was Brian Mulroney.

[sumdumguy]

Canada is pooched!

[chuckChuck]

As i posted if you take out the the oil industry out of the calculations productivity is okay in Canada.


[url]https://news.mcmaster.ca/over-a-barrel-canadas-oil-industry-is-a-drain-on-productivity-research-shows/[/url]

"Heavy investments in the oil industry make Canadian productivity look frail, new research from McMaster shows.

A paper published by Social Sciences Research Network ([url]https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4417319[/url]) looks at the fossil fuel industry’s impact on Canada’s economic output in terms of total factor productivity (TFP) – the measure of growth in economic output, not explained by increased use of labour and capital in production.

TFP is an important indicator of growth and represents an economy’s ability to produce more with the same resources.

“An economy needs productivity growth or else it will fall behind competitors. If productivity is not growing, you should be worried,” says co-author Pau Pujolas, an associate professor of economics at McMaster. “Canadian policymakers and academics are entertaining a lot of solutions to this problem, but we found the oil sector is masking the truth – Canada’s economy is growing at a healthy rate.”
Looking at all industries, the researchers found Canada’s TFP grew.08 per cent annually between 2000 and 2018. With the oil industry excluded from the data, the TFP growth ballooned eightfold to .65 per cent.

The trend had developed recently, researchers found, with no similar correlation between the oil industry and TFP seen from 1960 to 2001."

The trend emerged in the early 2000s after Canada’s oil production started dramatically increasing ([url]https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-commodities/crude-oil-petroleum-products/report/canadian-crude-oil-exports-30-year-review/[/url]) to 4.5 million barrels daily in 2023 from 2.1 million barrels per day in 2000.

The surge in production was likely driven by oil price increases and technological advances that helped turn Alberta’s oil sands into the largest contributor to Canadian oil production by 2009.

But the capital investments to make the oil sands economically viable have been masking overall productivity growth in the rest of the economy, researchers say.

“When the price of oil was about $20 per barrel, it didn’t make sense to invest and produce oil from the oil sands. As the price of oil multiplied five-fold over a decade, companies realized they could make some bucks from this,” Pujolas says.

“The investment in the oil sands was very small until the mid-1990s.” The oil sands went from accounting for less than 5 per cent of the oil industry’s investment in Canada to almost half of it.

“We’re not saying that [the oil sands] are necessarily a bad thing. Entrepreneurially, it probably made sense. But it’s certainly the cause for the for the lack of TFP growth.”

A similar trend did not materialize in the U.S., researchers say. A comparison of the same data showed TFP rose steadily there; excluding the oil industry had little effect on the result.

“With the oil industry excluded, TFP in Canada grew very similarly to that of the United States. The difference is so minimal you could think it was a measurement error,” says Pujolas. Between 2001 and 2018 they managed to grow their productivity across all industries by nine percentage points.

“When we exclude the oil industry, it looks like Canada has been able to do the same.”

While the paper attributes the recent lack of TFP growth to the oil sector, data showed that between the 1970s and 1990s, the oil sector did not have the same effect.

“Don’t worry about the productivity of the Canadian economy,” Pujolas says. “If you want to worry about anything, worry about the oil sector.”
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[Grain Farmer]

Canada today.

[shtferbrains]

"As i posted if you take out the the oil industry out of the calculations productivity is okay in Canada."

I can't comprehend your statement or follow what your cut and paste is saying or using for economic reference.
Never heard of TPF growth?

Can you summarize that into a couple of paragraphs and explain how productive is OK and we don't need an oil industry but they are doing good because Trudeau built a pipeline?