Alberta also has a higher average income, collects more taxes per capita, has a younger population thus not needing to support as many elderly people, and has a lower overall tax burden. Alberta made the choice to not have a sales tax of which proceeds could go towards things like child care. Alberta crying poor is really rich. Even with the oil crash and job losses it still has among the highest average incomes in the nation.
Except Alberta never cried poor. All Alberta wants is to be the left the fuck alone, because the people in the province actually believe in personal responsibility.
Finger-wagging from Quebec just deserves a punch in the face quite frankly. They're nothing but a drain on Confederation and somehow go around thinking they
deserve to be treated better than everyone else. Anything else is "unfair" and treating them equally is "picking on them," i.e. Bill C-21.
Put in a sales tax and stop complaining.
Put in a sales tax so we can further serve people like you who can't take responsibility for themselves. What were you saying about "that's really rich."
Albertan should put in a sales tax so Altair out in Ontario can buy a house so he doesn't have to make the sacrifices most people in Alberta made.
Except cities have, as I have shown, contributed greatly to the economic success of the provinces they are in.
Montreal providing 55 percent of Quebecs GDP. Toronto providing 54 percent. You want to get people in the cities to...not live in cities? Are small towns in the country ready for the influx of city dwellers descending on their communities? Is the infrastructure there? The housing, the jobs, the hospitals?
I doubt that very much. But it would be a great experiment to take 10 percent of Torontos populations and dump in in Wawa ontario.
Except GDP is not the only measure of an economy. You realize part of GDP is government spending right? So if the government borrows a $1 billion and then spends it on a bridge to nowhere or in other words burns $1 billion dollars, that's $1 billion added to the GDP.
What are these cities doing that produces wealth exactly? What their net exports (and not just goods, including financial and tech services, etc.)? How much money are they being paid vs how much money are paying out? That's the real measure of whether you're generating wealth or just being a drain.
In 2018, Toronto represented 40% of Canada's import requirements... I'm not so confident they are making up for that with their tech and service industries.
Also, people migrate gradually over time, your "experiment" is just you making more strawman's.
What else should urban canadians need to pay directly for?
Schools?
Hospitals?
Police?
Road maintenance?
Firefighters?
What other public service should urban canadians need to break out the credit card for in order to receive a service, or is childcare where the line must be drawn?
Again, you're not able to understand the topic. I never said they should "directly" pay for any of those services... I do think however that all those things listed are provincial responsibilities for a reason, and when the province is unable manage itself, they need to figure it out, not start stealing from other provinces for their failures through the Federal government spending powers. Newfoundland's inability to govern itself shouldn't become Alberta's problem... Toronto's inability to govern itself shouldn't become Alberta's problem. Draw the line where the constitution drew it... and people in unsustainable situations can either vote for better government policies at the provincial and municipal level or vote with their feet.
The Federal government spending powers are going to break Confederation.
Why would women want to get ahead in their careers? Why would women want to work? Why would families not want to have a duel income so they can afford the things they had before having kids?
Better question, if you have kids one day, why don't you stay home for 2 years? You're asking women(and its largely women) to do so, maybe as a society we should ask men to do that and watch the results.
Unless you prescribe to the philosophy that women belong at home raising kids and men must go out and earn a living.
That would be between myself and my partner, and what King Altair thinks we should do will not factor into the equation. I'm not asking women to do anything they don't want / choose to do, so you can take all your insinuations and go pound sand.
Do you ever stop to think that maybe women are less likely to dedicate their entire life to their career, and choose a more balanced lifestyle, is not because we're oppressing them but maybe because they are
smarter than men? That investing in your family is a better long-term strategy for happiness, and that for most people pursuing C-suite jobs and working 80 hours a week in pursuit of status is simply not a good idea?
Again, personal choices and responsibility. Your desire to socially engineer society is a circus, and Scandinavian countries have shown the more egalitarian society becomes, the more likely they are to make choices that you are exactly advocating they shouldn't.
When the top credit rating agencies stop considering Canadians debt amongst the top tier I will start to care.
That would be waaaay too late to start caring.
I guess you do not understand that if the economy grows faster than the debt accumulates it gets easier to service that debt.
Like I said, GDP is not the only measure, not even the best measure of an economy's strength. If the GDP is primarily made up of government spending, for example, then no, it does not indicate that you're able to service your debt.
What indicates your ability to service your debt are is your operating income, liquidity, etc., which is why when evaluating corporations (which is all the government really is) ratios like debt-to-service, etc. are used by banks to evaluate a company's ability to service their debt. The Federal gov'ts debt-to-service ratio is good
right now at ~10% thanks to Chretien, Martin, and Harper who brought it down after Trudeau 1 managed to bring it from ~12% to ~48% in only 16 years.... in other words, we can quickly go from "good" to "crisis" real relatively quickly, which is what I would be concerned about.
The Federal government's debt-service ratio is only one issue. The cumulative government (federal + provincial + municipal) debt-service ratio is really the measure of the entire country's ability to service all of its debt.
But who am I kidding, we'll just inflate the currency by printing more money, which makes debt cheaper.... and destroys the value of people's savings..... leaving behind people like yourself who are saving to buy a house. This fiat currency thing is a doomed social experiment in the making.
I don't need lessons in financial statements analysis from you quite frankly. I do understand what they mean, you clearly don't and are just spouting off the same shit the government says.
Bottom line, the welfare trap was bad for Newfoundland, and it's going to be bad for Canada.
