The oil industry in Alberta, the richest province in the country, still receives $1.4 billion a year in federal subsidies. That doesn’t include any of the special “one time” grants and funding programs dumped into the oil sands and NG projects over the years, so don’t give us that po’ boy east coast crap. Imperial oil is currently looking for between $2 to 3 billion from the fed for the Mackenzie pipe line for Crist’s sake. Of course to hear some Albertans tell it, they’re the ones who put the oil in the ground in the first place. Alberta without oil = Manitoba. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that!)
Unlike us slacker East coasters, you know like the Irvings, McCains, Olands (Moosehead Beer) etc etc Nope, just on the dole, sittin’ around smokin’, playin’ bingo, and waiting for the 649 to come in.