The statements that impacted me most were these:
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$9.3 billion -- or $2,914 per Albertan
The royalties Alberta received from the oil and gas industry -- which includes natural gas, crude oil, synthetic crude and bitumen -- for the fiscal year of 2004-2005 was $8.4 billion.
In other words, the feds take the equivalent of the entire royalties the Alberta government receives from its oil and gas industry PLUS $900 million.
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The whole point of the article is that oil is not the reason we are a "have" province. Sure, oil is a large part of the albertan economy, like the service industries in ontario, but the reason we have money is because we sacrificed many luxuries and necessities in order to achieve this goal.