[andyt]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/100115/canada/canada_calgary_calgary_haiti_alberta_donations_stelmach_red_cross

Classy.

[tritium]

$1:

The province contributes to humanitarian aid in other ways...

yeah, like supporting the Canadian Gov't and the rest of Canada.

$1:

The federal government is earmarking up to $50 million to match Canadians' donations to eligible Canadian charitable organizations.

45 million of that 50 million came from Oil Revenue and Alberta.

[andyt]

I know you put the winky face there, but you don't really believe that 90% of Federal Revenues come from Alberta, do you?

[martin14]

Typical lefties answer to everything is let the government pay for it.

Just can't stand it that maybe it's better to
let people help in their own way, instead of having the state
fling money hand over fist.


Bart Simpsons' sig has a real grain of truth to it:

A liberals' compassion is limited only by the size of someone elses wallet

[tritium]

andyt andyt:

I know you put the winky face there, but you don't really believe that 90% of Federal Revenues come from Alberta, do you?

Of course not, I was being kind saying 5 million actually came from the rest of Canada...

$243 billion in transfer payments were made to Ottawa last year from Alberta.

Alberta pays the highest transfer payments of any province.

http://www.freealberta.com/transfer_payments.html

[andyt]

I thought those transfer payments went to other provinces, not into federal revenues? Where you there protesting when Ontario and BC were bailing out your ass, or were you happy to take it at the time?

[gigs]

andyt andyt:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/100115/canada/canada_calgary_calgary_haiti_alberta_donations_stelmach_red_cross

Classy.

This story is BS check the link again


CBC telling lies big friggen surprise

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/ ... cross.html

[andyt]

Really? So how much is Alberta govt contributing directly? I know BC gave 500k, Ontario 1 mil. Course those are pledges, and we know they're not always kept.

[gigs]

andyt andyt:

Really? So how much is Alberta govt contributing directly? I know BC gave 500k, Ontario 1 mil. Course those are pledges, and we know they're not always kept.

Point is the CBC got it wrong and are retracting the story as we speak .
Too bad your Alberta trashing thread is kaputz.

[tritium]

andyt andyt:

I thought those transfer payments went to other provinces, not into federal revenues? Where you there protesting when Ontario and BC were bailing out your ass, or were you happy to take it at the time?

I don't know about that, I was living in the US at that time. Texas for 12 years and Califonia for 2 1/2 and before that Vancouver, BC..

Don't mean to sound calis about the huge catstropy and devastation in Haiti, however this country was given 300 million in aid by the US before this earthquake, however corruption and yet again US intervention in electing and positioning a political puppet to rob the people blind.. I think the US should be the country to bail out and rebuild Haiti.

The US created the problem, the US should fix it.

[tritium]

andyt andyt:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/100115/canada/canada_calgary_calgary_haiti_alberta_donations_stelmach_red_cross

Classy.

gigs gigs:

Point is the CBC got it wrong and are retracting the story as we speak .
Too bad your Alberta trashing thread is kaputz.

[andyt]

gigs gigs:

andyt andyt:

Really? So how much is Alberta govt contributing directly? I know BC gave 500k, Ontario 1 mil. Course those are pledges, and we know they're not always kept.

Point is the CBC got it wrong and are retracting the story as we speak .
Too bad your Alberta trashing thread is kaputz.

$1:

Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach promised $500,000 for earthquake relief in Haiti, a day after indicating the province wouldn't be directly donating to an aid agency.

Sounds to me like CBC got it right, and Stelmach is the one doing the retracting.

[gigs]

andyt andyt:

gigs gigs:

andyt andyt:

Really? So how much is Alberta govt contributing directly? I know BC gave 500k, Ontario 1 mil. Course those are pledges, and we know they're not always kept.

Point is the CBC got it wrong and are retracting the story as we speak .
Too bad your Alberta trashing thread is kaputz.

$1:

Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach promised $500,000 for earthquake relief in Haiti, a day after indicating the province wouldn't be directly donating to an aid agency.

Sounds to me like CBC got it right, and Stelmach is the one doing the retracting.

yeah, the CBC was the only outlet who printed a story of Alberta contributing nothing.

big surprise.

[gigs]

tritium tritium:

andyt andyt:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/100115/canada/canada_calgary_calgary_haiti_alberta_donations_stelmach_red_cross

Classy.

gigs gigs:

Point is the CBC got it wrong and are retracting the story as we speak .
Too bad your Alberta trashing thread is kaputz.

[andyt]

tritium tritium:

andyt andyt:

I thought those transfer payments went to other provinces, not into federal revenues? Where you there protesting when Ontario and BC were bailing out your ass, or were you happy to take it at the time?

I don't know about that, I was living in the US at that time. Texas for 12 years and Califonia for 2 1/2 and before that Vancouver, BC..

Don't mean to sound calis about the huge catstropy and devastation in Haiti, however this country was given 300 million in aid by the US before this earthquake, however corruption and yet again US intervention in electing and positioning a political puppet to rob the people blind.. I think the US should be the country to bail out and rebuild Haiti.

The US created the problem, the US should fix it.

That's callus. This is not foreign aid, this is immediate aid going to the Red Cross to help victims. Doubtless there'll be some corruption even there, but a lot less than giving it to Haiti govt.

As for transfer payments, it helps to take the long view, look at what you got as well as what you have to give. And being glad to be in a position to be able to give. If you lived in Vancouver 14+ years ago, you should know how it works.

From wiki: "Until the 2009-2010 fiscal year, Ontario was the only province to have never received equalization payments;" "a wealthy citizen in New Brunswick, a so-called "have not" province, pays more into equalization than a poorer citizen in Alberta, a so-called "have" province."