benny

To me, the cops’ wishing to know is a good enough reason to improve the Registry (that is lowering its costs among others things).

In the long run we are all dead anyway.

"When natural wealth is depleted" is the turn of phrase that would have been meaningful to say here.

If only politics could be about the force of the best argument!

Hubris is a mental disorder; no one deserves a mental disorder.

Keep your billions of tons of CO2 enclosed on your property if you really believe it is so good for your life.

The Catholic Church requires vows to combat what is the cause of the present economic crisis: hubris.

I think all Canadians should try to take a vow of poverty. Poverty has to be valued as a form of openness.

- By definition, taxing what we don't want cannot be stupid. - Canada actually captures 50% of the Provinces' natural resources royalties. - On federal responsabilities, you are mixing up the United States and Canada.

In case you haven't noticed the interest rate is at zero right now. It will remain at zero until operations like yours come to life again. There will be no real recovery until people understand that economics is about sharing a surplus no one deserves.

Yes, what is great about rent capture is that when we start capturing rents on one resource, we cannot stop until the capture of rents is completed on all natural resources (including internal natural resources like genes).

Reforming the current taxation on both the businesses and employees by following in the footsteps of Dion (taxing what we don’t want) would be charming. Without the ROC, there would be no workers in Alberta. The difficulty to reconcile economics and ecology comes from all these desperate migrants. What are under provincial jurisdictions are only the decisions to develop or not natural resources. Once the decision to develop is taken, Canada can access the royalties.

I think that if we would include incentives, this would reinforce tango calculus. Currently welfare recipients are trapped in a so-called "welfare trap" that annihilates work incentive and also currently the rich receive so much easy money that they have no incentive to work (more).

OK! We may say it works but only if we are not adjusting for the fact that the bottom 40 % are families with more children than the families of the top 10 % .

If Harper Scraps the Gun Registry, he will alienate Eastern Canada; support for some form of control reached 71 percent in the eastern, more urban provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

It doesn't add up.

This policy should be simply to explain to Canadians that 100% of natural resources royalty payments have to be included in the equalization formula and to lower that percentage a bit if the reactions of Albertans remain irrational.

Ignatieff himself has no idea because he wants to be charming toward Alberta.

If someone is able to live only with what s/he is receiving as compensation from all the owners then s/he will not be considered as an owner and therefore must not offer "exclusive" ownership of other property.

Economically-wise there are three main types of sacrifice: a physical or mental effort that is unpleasant (then you deserve a wage); taking a risk if the risk-taker is risk-averse (then you deserve the profit) and postponing consumption if not consuming the good/service is tough (then you deserve an interest).

yes (no sacrifice, no merit).

Not unlike Apple, Suncor can certainly make a fortune by hiding everything behind icons.

Economic activities for the sake of economic activities are very productive in the sense of allowing a society to postpone very destructive political unrests.

If you were bored by having too much time on hands prior to your remunerative undertaking, you are not sacrificing your time.

Doug Benson didn't know Canadians were in a fight in Afghanistan. Everybody should learn that secrecy is an integral part of good military operations.