Since the School of Public Policy report landed, one comparison has been everywhere: Alberta’s debt is 7.7 per cent of GDP today, and it could be 88.5 per cent after separation. It sounds like independence would multiply our debt eleven times over. It wouldn’t. That comparison stacks three different things on top of each other,…
Why Every Argument to Stay Is a Reason to Leave A Let’s Talk Alberta publication Written by Christopher Scott The views presented in this booklet are the personal opinions of Christopher Scott, presented by Let’s Talk Alberta. Figures are drawn from public records — Statistics Canada, the Public Accounts of Canada, the Parliamentary Budget Officer,…
And why none of them will ever champion an independent Alberta. This is one in a series of plain-language pieces on Alberta’s future, published by Let’s Talk Alberta and written by Christopher Scott. A note before you start: everything here presented as a fact — a date, a job, a dollar figure, a vote — is drawn…
I run a truck stop. Restaurant, fuel, the store, the campground, all of it, out at the junction of 21 and 50. I have spent thirty years reading invoices. And I can tell you the fastest way to spot a man who’s trying to put one over on you: he hands you a bill that…
An honest answer to every argument Forever Canadian, federalists, academics, and establishment voices are making — for anyone who wants to make an informed decision in October . Compiled from essays at whistlestoptruckstop.ca/blog — including “What Business Have Ye With Me, Your Majesty?”, “Alberta Independence: Necessary and Inevitable,” “Alberta Independence: Rebuttal to a Failed Green…
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