eureka eureka:
Unsound Unsound:
Typical easterner.
Maybe not quite, but near enough to show why westerners feel pushed into the outsider role so often. This is why first the reform and now the conservative party gets such support here. We
know the liberal party won't stand up for us, so we vote for the guys that we think
might.
And your interest is merely in electing a National government that "will stand up" for you? What happened to Harper's " who stands for Canada?
McGuinty is absolutely correct and it is about time it was brought onto the political open. Some of us have been saying it for several years as manufacturing jobs disappeared in Ontario particularly, in the hundreds of thousands. Apart from the reality that a true deve;opment programme of alternative energy would creat many times the number of jobs all across Canada: permanent jobs.
Not that it will matter in a few years. The oil sands will be dead in the water and the pipelines will be White Elephants. If Alberta does not start using its serendipitous wealth to rapidly diversify its economy it will be in serious trouble. The world will not tolerate the wilful and indiscriminate development of more fossil fuels.
The reckoning will not be many years away.
Are you really that out of touch with reality?
Read Unsound's post again then read your first paragraph and see who is looking at regional economics. Past Liberal governments were regional powers based in eastern Canada with economic policies that favoured one region at the expense of the rest of Canada. Conservative governments with a Western power base have been more national in focus. They cannot afford to tick of the mass of voters in the east and at the same time they cannot discriminate against the west. A more balanced approach than Liberal governments in the past 40 years.
As for your second paragraph you missed the big picture on economics and fell into the 'gain for today at the expense of tomorrow' trap. McGuinty has not done Ontario any favours. If you believe McGuinty is correct it calls into question your ability for critical thought.
Before you believe the oil sands and the pipelines will be white elephants in a few perhaps you should check on the estimated years of reserves and compare that to other oil producing sites. I have been hearing some idiot telling us we will run out of oil in the next 10 years since 1970. They all made the mistake of looking backwards and not forwards as far as new exploration and technology making forecasts on increasing demand and static supply. So 40 years later we have large reserves of unconventional crude, horizontal drilling, technology that has rejuvinated old sites and on a on. New energy sources will continue to grow, but oil will dominate the energy markets for at least the next 30 years and possibly quite aways beyond that.