Quick.
When I say "Alberta" what do you think?
Oil. Business. Freedom.
These are the things Alberta is known for, world wide - so, while perhaps we could improve our situation relative to the environment, relative to innovation, we do "do business" well, don't we?
Apparently not so much.
According to the recent Global Petroleum Survey, Alberta ranks 51st in the world for attracting investment, primarily due to regulatory interference and interminable red tape.
However - all is not lost, I mean, we're ranked 6th in Canada.
Behind Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.
Read that again.
The red necks in Alberta, the land of "free enterprise" are being done in respecting providing an attractive investment climate by Jack Layton and Olivia Chow's stomping grounds, Ontario.
We're being "out free-enterprised" by NDP voting Manitoba.
Isn't that just special.
There was a time when I would blithely ignore comments that "Alberta just has the good fortune to have oil under its feet." I would suggest that the freedom and ability to make efficient use of that good fortune is ultimately what makes Alberta great.
Now?
Not so much.
Time to re-think whether the "Alberta Advantage" is all talk.
Time to "walk the walk".
Wake up Alberta.
2 comments:
I’m wide awake and will be voting Wildrose!
The Prog-regressive Conservative party of Alberta can best be described as the political arm of the Alberta government bureaucracy, the Alberta government unions, the teacher unions and last but not least, the crony capitalists shysters who use their connections to rig things to their likings.
They’ve become socialist wolves camouflaged as Conservatives, but that’s what happens when you sell five dollar memberships to every socialist out there.
Time’s up for the whole lot of them!
Not to twist the knife, but Nova Scotia is an NDP government, and Saskatchewans natural governing party (at least until the SK Party breaks the pattern) is the NDP as well.
What happened Alberta? You used to be cool.
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