[N_Fiddledog]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

It's not just Linda McQuaig though.

In the video at the beginning of this thread it was shown how quickly Linda's policy dreams have been turned into reality by the new Alberta provincial NDP.

Here it is again.

So do you Chavez fans promise the rest of us it stops there?

You do know that they claim to suffer a 'loss' because of an increase in corporate income tax - not because of any change to oilsands, right? Saudis dumping oil on a saturated market had nothing to do with it . . .

And her comments came after CRL posted the loss . . .

That claim was answered at the beginning of the video. He says the company's books show 120 million of the 128 million loss was a result of the NDP's revenge tax for this quarter. If you have better figures, present them

[N_Fiddledog]

Ezra explains the numbers in greater detail below.

There are actually 3 new NDP "revenge taxes" in Alberta.

So far...

[N_Fiddledog]

As to the CNRL claim it goes like this:

$1:

The company says the tax hike increased its deferred income tax liability by $579 million. A deferred income tax liability is an item on a balance sheet showing a tax that a company will owe on its income, but has not yet been assessed.

"This charge effectively translates into lower future cash flows and therefore, lowers reinvestment in the business," said company CFO Corey Bieber in a release.

Also it's not just CNRL and Canadian Oil Company:

$1:

Canadian Natural Resources is not the only oilpatch player to speak up about the NDP. In fact, ever since the change of government, several oil and gas companies have spoken out about their concern and fear, as they are uncertain what changes will be made to Alberta's largest industry.

Last month, the head of Encana reminded the new government that investment dollars can always find a home in another jurisdiction.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canadia ... -1.3181541

[N_Fiddledog]

As to your personal dislike of Ezra (like it matters) - do you guys even know the sort of Rogue's gallery you're championing in the Alberta NDP?

http://www.therebel.media/here_s_how_ra ... in_alberta

[Thanos]

You can choose to have whatever heroes you want, even if they're the kind of people that have to issue an apology every second year or so to avoid getting sued for defamation and slander. As has been discussed here multiple times on other threads, who the messenger is and how they behave is as important as the message they're sending.

Be aware also that I never open any of your links because I'm not going to reward those kind of people with a mouseclick. They're usually liars and I don't want anything at all to do with them.

[N_Fiddledog]

Thanos Thanos:

Be aware also that I never open any of your links because I'm not going to reward those kind of people with a mouseclick.

That's cool. I do click yours. Because I want to see how for real maniacs like those ass-clown's at Little Green Footballs, or the National Inquirer wannabes at Gawker, or the indoctinating agitpropists at Think Progress, Media Matters, or Salon are corrupting weaker minds.

But I'll tell you what; seen as you're concerned about heroes and you're never going to know the truth about yours unless I tell you, here's what you're missing. (You'll notice there are embedded links there to offer verification. If you won't click them you'll have to remain ignorant, but that's not Ezra's fault. He tried to help you.)

$1:

1. Rachel Notley gave a speech about the oilsands - closed to TV cameras - in which she allegedly praised the oilsands. The mainstream media were jubilant about that speech. But we received a copy of that speech, and it’s a disaster. Take a look at it, here.

2. Notley has always been against crude oil exports. She said that again and again before her election. But she hasn’t changed one bit since her election. See proof of that, here.

3. It’s so bad, Notley just granted a bizarre concession to the Liberal premier of Quebec, giving him a de facto veto over Alberta’s pipelines. No province has the constitutional power to block another province’s exports. Notley has sold us out - see the video here.

4. What’s worse, the one premier who is standing up for the oil patch, Saskatchewan’s Brad Wall, has been demonized by Notley. See here.

5. What’s so frustrating, is that the mainstream media doesn’t want to hold the NDP to account. Teck just announced that it is delaying its massive, $20 billion oilsands mine for at least five years. They had been teetering on the edge; Notley’s tax hikes and royalty review surely pushed them over. That’s as big as if GM just shut down in Ontario. It should have been front page news for a week in Alberta. But it wasn’t. See here.

6. The oil patch is reeling from low prices, and Notley piled on with a vindictive royalty review. She appointed Dave Mowat, the head of Alberta Treasury Branches, to chair it. That probably sounded encouraging to many people. But he’s a Trojan Horse. Mowat is so extreme, he actually flew down to Tennessee to train personally with Al Gore about how to campaign against fossil fuels.

7. And then there’s the three chiefs of staff we exposed in a row. Toronto’s Graham Mitchell, now in charge of the energy department - we revealed he was a registered anti-oilsands lobbyist. Brent Dancey, now running the environment department. We revealed that he’s a former violent criminal from Regina. And Tony Clark, the chief of staff to another minister, who was also a registered anti-oil lobbyist.

http://www.therebel.media/here_s_how_ra ... in_alberta

[Thanos]

Repeat, not interested in anything that specimen has to say.

[Zipperfish]

I think Notley said during the lection that she was going to raise corporate taxes, and she got in anyways.

[N_Fiddledog]

Thanos Thanos:

Repeat, not interested in anything that specimen has to say.

Suit yourself, but if all you have to say is this...



I'll take your claimed expertise on what's said for what it's worth.

[Zipperfish]

It's more like this kitteh hitting the mute button.

[Thanos]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

I think Notley said during the lection that she was going to raise corporate taxes, and she got in anyways.

With the proviso that if the Baal-worshippers on the west shore of the Persian Gulf hadn't deliberately collapsed the world market in order to punish Bakken and the oilsands the economic activity in Alberta would still be what it was a year ago regardless of who won the provincial election. You know what's important to Alberta's economic woes right now, that was in the news today? That the smaller OPEC members like Libya, Algeria, and Iraq are begging for an emergency meeting to cut back on production because their own economies have been absolutely clobbered too. And that the Gulf Arabs are refusing to co-operate because they not only don't care what happens in North America, or Venezuela, or Russia, or Nigeria, they also don't care at all what happens to their fellow co-religionists in the smaller and weaker OPEC states.

That is the only thing that matters in this equation. The Arabs are going to fuck the entire world if they can in order to destroy as much of the competition as possible. The oil industry is not going to recover until the asshole Arabs who sit on top of the easiest to process supply of petroleum in the world quit behaving this way. The ranting of some ex-SUN loudmouth who gets sued every year, or from the current collection of rats at the SUN who are trying to do to Notley what the American righties have been doing to Obama for seven years, is nonsense. More puritan ideological nonsense from the same bunch of curtain-jerkers and chicken fuckers who do this kind of crap all the time for no other reason (certainly not the public good anyway) than because it's their damn job as politically radical conservative culture warriors to sabotage and undermine. I know who the damn enemy is and it certainly isn't someone sitting in the premier's office in Edmonton right now.

[Thanos]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

It's more like this kitteh hitting the mute button.

Pretty much except it would be a Kokanee tallboy instead of (ugh) a Bud Light.

[JaredMilne]

This is why I hope the result of the election is a minority. Harper has proven himself unworthy of a majority, Trudeau takes more after his mother than his father when it comes to intelligence and Mulcair has people in his party spewing off absurd crap like this. Never mind that Tom Mulcair actually came up with a much more reasonable resource policy centered on development here in Canada, one that also shared the beliefs of Peter Lougheed and Danielle Smith.

The really funny thing about Linda McQuaig is that, when you get past her rhetoric, she actually makes some really insightful points about the flaws in the whole "homo economicus" model we've adopted by assuming that greed and personal gain are the only worthy things in life, she's pointed out the problems with "public choice" theory, and she's also accurately described the defects in trade agreements like NAFTA.

Hell, even conservative writer Jonathan Kay, the National Post's managing editor, found that she made a lot of reasonable points when he reviewed her 2010 book The Trouble With Billionaires. The problem was that he was soured on the book by the visceral dislike that McQuaig and her co-author Neil Brooks seemed to have for the wealthy.

McQuaig's rhetoric, much like that of other leftists, frequently ends up undercutting her otherwise excellent points.

(I'd post links to Mulcair's and Kay's articles, but they don't seem to be active right now.)

In that respect, she ends up being her own worst enemy.

martin14 martin14:

That first comment sums it up rather nicely, he only missed the tax payer funded salary and pension she gets, so it's not like she has to work for any of her money.

Um, Linda McQuaig is a candidate, not a sitting MP. She's never been elected, so ergo she's not receiving any taxpayer salary or pension. She has been earning her money through gainful employment in the private sector at places like the Toronto Star and The National Post, and through her own independently-written books.

You know, like Ezra Levant.

[andyt]

And her comments were entirely reasonable - just as usual simplified for the dumbasses to froth over. It may come down to leaving some of the oil in the ground if we want to keep temp increase to below 2 degrees. Unfortunately the way humans operate, we won't be ready to do that until after the point of no return, and even then some idiots will be denying there's a problem and wanting to extract and burn every molecule of oil they can get their hands on.

[Thanos]

Try knitting your computer components out of grass then because without fossil fuels and oil-based synthetics all of human civilization basically comes to an end.