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As far as I understand it, the whole country is dependent on the tar sands, but the east still hates it.
by nightowl_games 2y ago
As far as I understand it, the whole country is dependent on the tar sands, but the east still hates it.
- SketchySeaBeast 2y agoIs really not. I don't think there are any numbers justifying narrative, and numbers presented in this thread prove it. The dependency is really just Albertan advertising.
- speed_spread 2y agoCanada's economy is built on primary resource extraction and production in general but would have done fine without the tar sands. Most of the oil money leaves the country; the money that stays mainly fuels self-serving private agendas, pressuring other parts of the economy and stuffing politics. This could have been averted had a solution like Norway's state oil fund been adopted but would have been too socialist a measure for the empire to tolerate.
- nightowl_games 2y agoIs this not the analogous fund? https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/heritage-fund-reaches-all-time-high-value-of-22-1b-1.6857531 https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/heritage-fund-reaches-all-time-h...