2021 Calgary Municipal Election

[ExtraSlow]

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@ExtraSlow was outside the bus screaming my body my choice …. I did the research

I considered popping in for my third shot. Gotta pump those numbers.

[redline]

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I considered popping in for my third shot. Gotta pump those numbers.

After getting my second, I looked the the nurse and said … see you in 6 months for my third booster… I though she was going to start crying …

[D'z Nutz]

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After getting my second, I looked the the nurse and said … see you in 6 months for my third booster… I though she was going to start crying …

I can see why. Your third shot is actually your second booster. She was cringing at your maths.

[msommers]

I'm gonna get another Moderna shot so I'm double. $100 and the US will accept me. Actually, three Moderna for superior 5G and $200.

[mr2mike]

Let's talk equalization payments. Here's why you need to vote YES.
The question will be:
"Should Section 36(2) of the Constitution Act, 1982 — Parliament and the Government of Canada’s commitment to the principle of making equalization payments — be removed from the Constitution?"

Québec is on track to get $12.5B from this for the upcoming year and will only go higher with these higher commodity prices.
You think AB needs some rebuild money?
Will we ever see a cent? No! Just higher federal taxes and probably higher property tax to cover everything that's been done during pandemic.
Despite @ExtraSlow and his 52 week high energy trading accounts. He'll be forever broke with this system in place.
His kids won't be able to afford a powerboat let alone an ePowerboat and this is an atrocity!

He's a equalization payment calc. Marth it up.
https://financesofthenation.ca/equalization/

[ExtraSlow]

You know I don't invest in energy.

[dirtsniffer]

Is kenney even remotely capable of getting us a better equalization deal? I don't think he's the guy to pick the fight with the feds.

[pheoxs]

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Is kenney even remotely capable of getting us a better equalization deal? I don't he's the guy to pick the fight with the feds.

Nope. The referendum question is not about removing or readjusting equalization. It's about giving kenney media talking points to fan flames over something he cannot affect.

[ExtraSlow]

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Is kenney even remotely capable of getting us a better equalization deal? I don't he's the guy to pick the fight with the feds.

a "better deal" is likely not something that's within possibility of any Alberta premier no matter what their party or personal skillset is.
you'd need 3-4 provinces wanting to open it up, and ideally at least 1 of those would need to be Ontario or Quebec. Seems unlikely. As buster has mentioned, succession is an easier path, as wild as that may sound to compromise-loving Canadians. not EASY mind you, just EASIER.

Still, at this point, that's not really what you are voting for with the referendum. You are voting for the Alberta government to keep making noise about equalization, keep pissing off Ottawa, which is all fine by me.

[suntan]

I've said it a few times: Have the province collect income tax. Quebec already does this.

Then the feds can come and get it.

[mr2mike]

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Nope. The referendum question is not about removing or readjusting equalization. It's about giving kenney media talking points to fan flames over something he cannot affect.

From a legal stand point, it will get balls rolling which will take years to move.

[dirtsniffer]

First step is to leave CPP in my opinion. easy way to hit the rest of the country in the wallet

[ExtraSlow]

but stay in ccp, right?

[dirtsniffer]

I'd much rather some PCP

[ExtraSlow]

Group buy?

[kertejud2]

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I've said it a few times: Have the province collect income tax. Quebec already does this.

Then the feds can come and get it.

The feds do not allow Quebec collect federal income tax. Quebec collects their provincial taxes, so Quebecers get to file two sets of income taxes.

[killramos]

Cause we totally don’t file two sets of income taxes in Alberta or anything

[suntan]

TIL, unsurprisingly, that kert2 has never filed a tax return.

[kertejud2]

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Cause we totally don’t file two sets of income taxes in Alberta or anything

You file two on the same form.

Take what you do now, double it, increase the number of government employees to deal with it, and you have what Quebec has.

The province even uses the municipalities to collect its share property taxes from people. Maybe the city should just say ‘come and get it?’

[killramos]

In your view.

Filling out the federal form then separately filling out the additional Alberta forms and attaching it to the federal form is different than filling out 2 forms?

I swear Kert could be convince of anything as long as it comes from the government lol