Readers in Eastern Canada may be forgiven for reckoning that Alberta cowboys are trying to jackhammer our province out of the bedrock.
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The carbon tax adds 11¢ per litre to gasoline and 13¢ to diesel. It costs about $13 extra to fill a pickup truck because of the carbon tax, money that could instead buy two jugs of milk. Trudeau’s No More Pipelines law, Bill C-69, and his West Coast Tanker Ban, Bill C-48, are two more hits. Alberta can’t get its oil and gas out to places that need it for home heating like the U.K., or to India, that’s looking to buy natural gas.Article content
Can you imagine if a prime minister blocked exports of auto parts from Ontario or aluminum from Quebec the way Trudeau blocks Alberta’s natural resources? It’s almost impossible to picture.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Albertans recently voted overwhelming in a province-wide referendum in favour of changing equalization and getting a better deal with Ottawa.
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