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So how do you explain Norway's success with a fraction of the amount of oil? The sovereign fund they created with their oil and gas is worth $2.2 trillion (US) - $340 thousand per Norwegian. This is what you're blaming communism for don't forget. They're generally considered progressive like us and believe in a free-market economy with a robust welfare state, high taxation, and strong labor protections. But notice we increasingly suck at that too. We had an even better opportunity than Norway and we fumbled it spectacularly because we couldn't bring ourselves to do it. Then we turned, not to mention subsidized, to foreigners to come develop us. Apparently the irony still eludes you which is also pathetic in case you missed that.

No you really don't at all. You're terrified of ordinary people having anymore power over their governance. You're a tru-blu partisan that's adamantly opposed to any reforms that would dilute party rule and dominance in our Parliamentary system.

They were probably terrified of the horrors of zero growth that economic catastrophists were alarmed about. Personally I don't think you've seen anything yet, wait until climate charge alarmists predictions that 1.5 billion humans will be fleeing the growing areas that are becoming uninhabitable start becoming evident. It's already happening in fact.

We'd probably all be a lot less stressed out if it was around the 3 billion or so it was when serious modern warnings about overpopulation started seeping into human consciousness 50-60 years ago. Scientific concerns actually go back thousands of years. The earliest known systematic warning about overpopulation appears in the Atrahasis Epic, an ancient Mesopotamian text dating back to approximately 1800 BCE. Even 3 billion may be to much to hope that our planet's ecosystems wouldn't collapse trying to meet the demands of that many people living the dream most of us here have come to enjoy. Some economists with a more Cornucopian outlook imagine it could be 10 billion or more. Some even say we should be aiming for that and predict it'll actually be the magic number at which we can safely have an economy that doesn't require anymore growth. Right now however the thought of a zero growth economy is you know...the end of the world.

Have you ever considered the economic catastrophism climate alarmists are bombarded with by terrified skeptics? Everyone is being bombarded all the time. Bombs are all anyone has left to fight with I guess.

It's. What. You. Are. I'm LMAO at you.

You really don't have a clue do you? It was completely the same. We chose to eschew nationalism, and then we chose globalization. The real irony is that we still begged foreign corporations to come and develop us. That's about as pathetic as it gets. Sure kid.

It was still bullshit - cowshit actually given your insistence on a more accurate vernacular.

Bring back Dick Cheney.

Yes I am. It took all of three seconds to prove you're not.

Hey, you're the one who puts all his faith on an x on a ballot. Said the loser.

That your a lying sack of shit? It merely confirmed the point. Sure, send me your banking info.

We wouldn't be overpopulated and cooking the planet. We should be but I think you're dreaming we will or that we'll replace it before disaster strikes. It'll have to be a disaster to wake us up.

No. Yup. It's a ridiculous idea.

Canada should only be producing as much as we need - to wean ourselves off it without going broke in the process of transitioning to alternatives. It killed the carbon tax...it's caved to right-wing whining. Every government in Canada should be hostile to fossil fuels especially in the face of climate change. Yes it should. But as you people like to point out he's also invested in oil so he's a typical right-wing hypocrite from where I'm sitting. Like I said, we're a generation too late. We should have hired Norway when we had the chance. That said, I bet they could make us a bundle managing our nuclear resources for us. More by poor planning I think let's face it, Canada is kind of like an epitome of the Peter Principle.

You're a lying sack of shit lady. Google lens says... While the specific geographic location is not definitively recorded in public archives, this photograph is widely recognized as a staged, humorous, or "ironic" vintage photo. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/218987600619865930/

Why? Why should Canada be stuck paying such a high price for something we have in such abundance? Is Alberta being bombed back into the stone age too?

You reverse everything people talk about. Not anymore. It's on producers - it should still be on both. What channel? We're still on the topic of who owns Canada's resources and who should determine how they're used. We had the choice to be Norway who made a shit whack more off a fraction of the resources we have. Your kind of thinking led to where we are now - a generation too late and about $500 billion too short. I'm laughing.

What's also going on in Canada is that millions of people have decided to be as ungovernable as possible. Our governments have shit to work with and the results are becoming more obvious.

$10 says this is just a stupid meme you pulled out of your butt.

Sure, they just haven't paid enough is all and in the case of oil and gas companies they've been subsidized up the wazoo. More to the point we've screwed ourselves up the wazoo by subscribing to the sort of sycophantic thinking you put into your defence of our poor hard done by corporations. Sure, but rules still make you seeth.

I said it was about you and your abject hatred towards being told how to behave yourself - the intent of very single rule and regulation on the books, including traffic lights.

They didn't build that freedom, we did. In that case both Alberta and Ottawa should be helping Canada to a big chunk of the war profiteering our resource is generating. Most of which should be plowed into developing alternatives and making us more independent of world market dictates for energy. It's ridiculous that any energy super power should be held hostage to America's vandalism on the other side of the world. I know, it's ridiculous how beholden we are to others. Apparently your toaster knows you better than your mirror.

No it's definitely Canada...and it has a lot more to do with being a Confederation of provinces who act more like seperate countries. We're more like the EU. Progressiveness is just a natural governing ideology most of us happen to share. You people just need to learn to not take that so personally.

No, I've made it perfectly clear it's about you.