What Canadians Should Be Saying To Albertans - Repeatedly
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Summary
Canadians would be paying an additional $1,000 a year if it weren t for Alberta's contribution to Canada's economy, according to an article that ran all over the country a few days ago. But what do we hear from the rest of the country when we thank Alberta for all it does for us?
Transcript
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Just sitting down in my basement with the big blue
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mug of coffee, sitting in my big blue chair here, just reading over an article that I read a couple
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of days ago that you may have seen. The headline, Canadians would be paying additional $1,000 a
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year if it weren't for Alberta's contribution report. This story ran all over the country.
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You know, that means if you're a two-income family, you are saving $2,000 this year because
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of alberta over the last 20 years alberta has put 321.9 billion dollars into the canadian economy
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that's four times as much as british columbia and six times as much as the economic engine of canada
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ontario as a matter of fact over the last 40 to 50 years what was the number six is it 600 billion
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dollars? We have been watching this for years. Six hundred billion dollars in the last 40 or 50
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years. Yeah, six hundred billion dollars. And by the way, the other seven provinces that I didn't
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mention all get money from Alberta. Most of the money, by the way, goes to Quebec. But what do
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we hear from Canadians? Do we hear, thank you, Alberta, for contributing so much? Thank you,
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Albertans for working so hard and contributing so much and expecting so little, although we expect
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a lot and don't get very much. No, that's not what we hear at all. We hear that we're treasonous for
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wanting independence. We're hearing that we're traitors because we want better for our province,
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for the people who live here, and our children and grandchildren. As a matter of fact, Premier
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Daniel Smith has been called a traitor and treasonous by chiefs for having the audacity
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for allowing us to have a vote on independence later this year in our province. You know what
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you should be doing, those of you who are saving $1,000 a year because of Alberta contributing so
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much? You know what you should be doing? You should be saying, thank you.