Recent content by darwink

90 minutes but yeah.

This was the case for Banff, but is no longer the case as the province wants to own the asset after a term, so the province has to pay to buy it.

They don't care. They're separatists who only care about creating the infrastructure for independence, whether in public opinion or public administration.

Sigh. A study of service provision versus paying for it is exactly what you want. The big issue at the time was funding relief, to stop mobile bands of unemployed moving to places that could afford more relief. But they did talk about health a lot. Health, unusually for us now, was examined in...

In YYZ they have to compete with the Air Canada super connector while depending on mostly O&D traffic. You have to be pretty confident to do it. I bet what happens is Toronto Calgary Dreamliner flights for efficiency and keeping air frame hours up, and doing sun flying from Toronto on...

You can look up the report from the: the Rowell-Sirois Commission. The main report runs about 800 pages. (or you can accept that by not blowing up the system, our various governments since then have accepted that the recommendations were sound, even if implemented in an incomplete way (the...

Yes, federal provincial relations from the mid 30s to the late 50s were all about this and it generated a lot of studies to figure it out. The pre-equalization way to solve it was that the federal government collected all taxes with the same rates nation wide, and then remitted revenue back to...

Which changing that would not reduce equalization payments (just shuffle it around differently), nor would it result in Alberta having more money. Equalization exists for a particular reason: to stop high service need individuals from moving away from poor places to rich places, where...

To some extent yes, but as others point out, Alberta suffers from deficits while investing less in many services.

For individuals: Rate and tax type comparison:

Maybe instead of paying an anticipated penalty of Max 10 delivery delays? Or are those two cancelled but westjet painted 787s still sitting on the ground waiting for delivery to someone?

Alberta's taxes are too low and in good years non-renewable resource revenues pays the difference. In bad years there are big deficits. Below shows how much more the province would have to spend or save if Alberta adopted the taxation system of other provinces.

forward projections by 25 or so years iirc.

Alberta's population 2024 (grey and green) 2014: (blue and green)

I do like how people seem to think provincial policy matters almost at all. The NDP did not make oil prices low. The UCP did not make oil prices high. Electing the NDP would not make oil prices low again.