[Thanos]

fifeboy fifeboy:

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Oh, Alberta, you poor fools. You're like this good-looking kufar girl whose home is surrounded by ISIS and you're going to the door with a smile, because you're thinking, "Well, at least they're not the last guys."

You are so completely and inevitably screwed.

Why? You planning to move there?

Hope he doesn't. We've already got Craig Chandler filling the unhinged conservative role around here.

[N_Fiddledog]

The future will show us who's correct.

Think I'll bookmark this one.

(Then again, being wrong never seems to bother you guys. )

[DrCaleb]

Some advice for the new minister, from some past ministers:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/5-peopl ... -1.3087904

[Thanos]

My advice will be to hold firm against the more idiotic CEO's as much as possible. Most of them are smart enough to realize that things have changed, and that they will end up having to pay a little more but they're still going to be developing and making huge amounts of money when the recession ends. It's the bloviating assholes like that clown from EnCana who threatened to take a billion dollars out of Alberta just because he didn't like the election results that should be ignored altogether. That type of uber-wealthy brat doesn't deserve the time of day and the relationships with the more intelligent and conscientious executives who know they're still going to make bank with the eggs the golden goose keeps giving them are the ones that deserve the attention.

[BeaverFever]

martin14 martin14:

A teacher.

Oh.

My.

God.

You should stop to do some reading before you put on a big show. Harldy any of Alberta's past Energy Ministers have any background in the Energy sector....even under Saint Ralph, there was just the one guy who had some junior jobs in some oil services companies for a few years after university!

Most just seem to be party goons with barely any private sector experience or jobs outside of the public office let alone energy experience!

So what are you on about?

Wait, wait... I see here one of them once purchased a gas station in the 1970's and turned it into an Antique Shop, does that count?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Al ... _of_Energy

[Thanos]

Most of Peter Lougheed's guys were relative neophytes too but they still gave us the best, the most progressive, and the most farsighted government Alberta ever had. Back when being a conservative was something to be proud of, not just a two-trick pony built only to make bankers richer and to provide a platform for grampa's deranged ranting.

[DrCaleb]

Thanos Thanos:

It's the bloviating assholes like that clown from EnCana who threatened to take a billion dollars out of Alberta just because he didn't like the election results that should be ignored altogether. That type of uber-wealthy brat doesn't deserve the time of day and the relationships with the more intelligent and conscientious executives who know they're still going to make bank with the eggs the golden goose keeps giving them are the ones that deserve the attention.

He should be first up against the wall, now that the new revolution is here.

That also verifies that my dislike of Morton was justified. Happiest day I had was deleting his accounts. Stelmach had to revisit the royalty scheme, because Klien refused to do it regularly. Business understands there is a cost, they just need the costs to be predictable and not too sudden. That was Stelmach's mistake. He should have phased them in over time.

But I don't see any oil companies packing up and leaving over it.

Notley should review royalty rates too. And increase them, but slowly so that business can plan ahead.

[Thanos]

Stelmach tried to fine-tune it too much. Instead of a blanket increase for everyone they came up with a scheme that over-punished some, especially the juniors that already had too much debt already existing from their initial investments, and let others off the hook. The timing of the increases were stupid too, especially when they implemented them during the 2008 crisis. Notley's already said that any increases won't happen until a recovery does so hopefully she sticks to that promise.

[Zipperfish]

This is just a complete and utter fai;lure to understand the concept of democracy. It's not a technocracy. You don't end up with the guy who actually knows what's going on in charge. It's elected politicians, the vast majority of whom are lawyers, ex-journalists or silver-spoon types who've never had a real job.

[Thanos]

No way around it though, unless you bring back the concept of guilds where an industry selects from it's own ranks a representative to the government who sits in an advisory or managerial role.

[BeaverFever]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

This is just a complete and utter fai;lure to understand the concept of democracy. It's not a technocracy. You don't end up with the guy who actually knows what's going on in charge. It's elected politicians, the vast majority of whom are lawyers, ex-journalists or silver-spoon types who've never had a real job.

Exactly. Look at CEO's, many of the top-paid move from one company to the next, from one industry to the next because their expertise is managing and delegating and "high level, big picture" stuff, not being the subject matter expert. Their sought-after expertise is in being a CEO, not in the industry that they happen to working in at any given moment.

[martin14]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

Wait, wait... I see here one of them once purchased a gas station in the 1970's and turned it into an Antique Shop, does that count?

That would at least give him some practical business experience.

The last 3 PC Ministers all had years in the Legislature, to at least get an idea of
how things work.

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

Their sought-after expertise is in being a CEO, not in the industry that they happen to working in at any given moment.

Which is why 99.999% of them have decades of experience in business,
and a couple of MBAs to boot.


This woman has absolutely nothing, her major qualification seems to be she is from the North.


Oh I'm sure there will be 2 or 3 Dipper projects that will be announced, and then descend
into the normal boondoggle disaster waste of money, while the companies run complete circles around her, or sit back and wait.

The oil isn't going anywhere.