Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Bureaucrats getting ready for cutbacks by Premier Shawn Graham!!!


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Originally uploaded by Oldmaison.
No more fancy cars!!!

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I believe it.

The new liberal cutbacks,starting with "The Land rover" for a bit less then 100,000 dollars.
While the Alberta N.B.er is guaranteed 8$ an hour,under our screw a nber plan.
Bet you wish you could do it over again and have stayed with MS. Blaney

Anonymous said...

that no cut back that land rover is worth more than a caddie

Anonymous said...

Nationalize energy industry: Quebec prof

canada must nationalize its oil and gas industry to help lower the cost at the pumps by one-third, says a Quebec university accounting professor.

Leo-Paul Lauzon says Quebec could also build a refinery with independent dealers and negotiate directly with oil exporting countries.

Lauzon analysed annual reports of major oil companies such as Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, BP Amoco, Chevron Texaco and Conoco Philipps over a period of eight years with researcher Marc Hasani.

"We can't afford to keep getting poorer," said Lauzon, who teaches at the University of Montreal at Quebec.

Lauzon has been calling for the nationalization of Canada's oil and gas industry over the last several years.

He told a news conference the analysis has shown that major oil companies continue to eliminate their competition by either buying or merging them and most of the profits go to the shareholders rather than investing and building refineries.

"Currently Canada, self-sufficient in oil and gas as the third-largest producer of natural gas and the sixth-largest for oil, has prices imposed on it due to events that happen in Iran, Iraq or Saudi Arabia," he said.

"Among the oil-producing countries, Canada is going the wrong way. It's the only western country to privatize this essential resource, largely to foreign interests," Lauzon said.

Lauzon said that if the federal government can't be convinced to nationalize the Canadian oil industry, Quebec should act with its own governmental bodies, such as pension fund manger Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec, in partnership with independent dealers.