[AlexandrB]

Did you watch this video? About half way through he confirms that Alberta has the highest GDP/capita in Canada and is the largest (per capita) tax contributor. Ontario is obviously larger in absolute terms, but it has at least 4x the population.

[cmrdporcupine]

As with any time you deploy an average... (And I'd expect better on this forum of all places)

Show me the distribution. Show me the median not just the mean. Show me the standard deviation.

Otherwise ... abused.

Yes, we all know oil is an extremely profitable (and environmentally destructive) commodity. That doesn't make the typical Albertans somehow responsible for holding up all of confederation. Just means oil is making some people very rich. For now.

I'm from there and my family is in Alberta. I can tell you now that the oil industry ain't doing jack squat for them.

[jleyank]

Do the oil profits even stay in Canada? Taxes maybe, but it’s not like the province owns the wells.

[cmrdporcupine]

They get to "own" them when it's time to "clean them up" after they're abandoned by bankrupt shell corporations, that's for sure.

https://www.pgic-iogc.gc.ca/eng/1588343274882/1588355750048

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/abaondoned-oil-well-o...

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/what-did-alberta-do-with...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-more-than-1...

But Trudeau had it out for Alberta. Better off separating. Yep.

[ChoGGi]

I think 70-80% of investors are down South, so not much stays here no. And jack shit goes into the heritage fund, just for aimco to throw away (sorry invest).

[throw0101c]

> About half way through he confirms that Alberta has the highest GDP/capita in Canada and is the largest (per capita) tax contributor.

Nunavut and NWT have higher per capita numbers, but that's territory versus province:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_provinces_and...

Yukon and SK are in the >90k range, both ~5k below AB.