I have a lifelong friend who claims that @billyjoel performed on his cruise in April 1995 when my buddy was 16. His parents back his story. We've now made a fairly substantial wager but I can't find the proof to debunk this and win the bet. Can anyone help?
If Canada wants Alberta to stay, it's actually quite simple - just treat Alberta fairly.
Here's how Ottawa could do that:
1) Fix the House of Commons so it's proportional to population.
2) Fix the Senate, so it's elected and there are an equal number of seats per province.
3) Repeal the multiple pieces of legislation preventing pipeline and energy project construction and let the private sector get to work.
4) Get rid of the equalization program.
5) Convert transfer payments using a tax point transfer.
6) Give up the "spending power" on issues that are provincial jurisdiction.
Note that literally none of these would change things to favour Alberta, they would simply remove existing inequalities to make things fair for all provinces.
If the rest of Canada isn't willing to even consider making things fair, why should Alberta stay?
With the Stanley Cup playoffs starting tomorrow, i thought it would be cool to get alumni to share pics of their cup rings. Any chance of you guys getting it started @commie22@hockey_tr@TheoFleury14?
@KeithOlbermann I would rip the maple leaf tattoo off my shoulder before calling Gretzky un-Canadian. He is Canada. Anyone who suggests otherwise has become politically clouded.
Anyone in Eastern Canada who thinks that @MarkJCarney has intentions of building a needed east/west pipeline should reach out and talk to their fellow Canadian from Alberta to hear what they have to say. We've lived this before. He won't actually say it because he won't do it