Mike's Daily Comment

Discount Oil at Canada’s Expense

A big portion of the Canadian Electorate has bought onto the idea that Canadian Oil should be sold at a massive discount to American produced oil. President Obama’s killing of the keystone pipeline then he lifting the export ban on US Oil prevented Canadian producers from accessing World Markets and World Prices while getting those prices for record US pipeline Production. Just one of the costs for Canada went up $8 a barrel to ship by rail, in the end costing Canadian Governments important revenue. 

 

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Questionable Spending With Little Oversight

If it wasn’t such a daugnting task, the average band member would easily know how much band counciil members are spendng band money. Not so easy. At the forefront you have the Trudeau Liberals removing accounability, forcing members like lastest member of the Cree band being forced to go to court to get the expendictures of her band council and chief. Not a very promisiing project when an investigation like this can takes months, if not years. This on top of 31 seperate reports from Auditor General Sheila Fraser begging for just such accounability. Since this system doesnt benefit band members, who does this system benefit?

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Don’t worry, it’s still our kids who wil be paying for it. But in case you’re wondering, the size of government debt continues to skyrocket.

There’s nothing like directly paying a price for bad policy to get people’s attention. The only problem is – by then it’s too late. Just ask electricity users in Ontario or the Teamsters in New York. The question is are you next?

Can you think of a single special interest leader or politician that has stood up and said “the world around us has changed so I have changed my thinking about this issue“?