alexei_kz

I didn't say it's a booming economic miracle, I said there is no money in oil in Alberta right now, and it would be a proper business/economical practice to invest into a new technology. Obviously, the prices of green electricity aren't there yet, but unless there is a serious effort to change directions, things won't magically improve.

The question is what happens when the main industry of the province no longer seems able to bring in cash, and long-term (or even short term) is not very viable as "main industry". With oil prices like they are, isn't it the perfect moment to invest in green technologies?

Since the dawn of civilization, mankind has been establishing pyramidal structures, where some people are on top, by standing on the shoulders of others. Or, as Orwell said, "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." I don't think the problem is more autonomy for MPs or better Parliament, because those are symptoms of a problem, which is the fact that our society has a tendency to establish undemocratic structures, and only by remembering what real democracy is, and not giving up on our freedoms, can we make a balanced system. We have to remember that the nexus of the ideas about how First past the post is the most efficient and democratic system, because we live in a "complex, oh so complex" world, come from those in power and from the status quo, which doesn't make it democratic at all. Proportional representation is not necessarily the best system either, if we forget where democracy comes from, if we forget that we have a voice.