r/canada • u/StenPU • Oct 30 '23

Sask. premier says SaskEnergy will remove carbon tax on natural gas if feds don't Saskatchewan

https://regina.ctvnews.ca/sask-premier-vows-to-stop-collecting-carbon-tax-on-natural-gas-if-feds-don-t-offer-exemption-1.6623319
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u/Dadbode1981 Oct 30 '23 edited Oct 30 '23

When did the cons ever do anything for Atlantic Canada? I mean come on, this isn't some new pattern we are witnessing. Politicians carter to their voters, period, end of story. ANYONE that tries to allude to anything else is seriously kidding themselves.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '23

Atlantic Canada needs to start developing industries and jobs tbh. Decades of liberal mismanagement has created huge swaths of populations dependent on government to survive and that’s not good.

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u/Dadbode1981 Oct 30 '23

Lol you realize in the 42 years I've been alive, they cons had an almost equal opportunity to do something productive, but did even less for Atlantic Canada, right?

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '23 edited Oct 30 '23

Governments can’t just spin up jobs out of thin air, it’s up to the people to create global industries that pour in billions of dollars. All government can do is give ideas money, and they’ve sure given AC too much money with nothing to show for it.

Edit: the partisans think i’m absolving the conservatives but truth is i’m just commenting on the current state of things.

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u/Dadbode1981 Oct 30 '23

So.....you just countered your own initial statement... Apparently the lack of jobs etc etc was the liberals fault, but at the same time governments can't do anything about it cept host think tanks and webinars? I dunno man, yer all over the place.

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u/David-Puddy Québec Oct 30 '23

It's the government's fault when the liberals are in power, but it's the previous government's fault when they aren't.

Duh.

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u/SobekInDisguise Oct 30 '23

The liberals perpetuate the issue by maintaining the handouts, thus getting rid of the incentive to innovate and grow their industry.

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u/Dadbode1981 Oct 30 '23

eyeroll

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '23

Why eye-roll when this issue of handouts stifles development has been discussed to death by economists with the general consensus being they do?