“Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my B.C. colleague for giving us a bit of an Alberta history lesson. Part of it was almost entertaining. When I look at this, I am a little concerned. One of the issues here is that the Liberals want to compare Norway to Alberta, whereas Alberta has had, over the last 50 years, $600 billion in transfer funds go out of the province to the rest of the country. If that was actually in the Alberta heritage fund, we would probably be exceeding Norway at this time. My concern is with the lack of structure. Who is going to be in control of this? How are they going to be appointed? Is the member concerned that this is just going to be another slush fund for the Prime Minister to dictate to his buddies to invest in what the government is concerned about?”
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Mr. Speaker, Positioning · 3 wordsI absolutely agree.PositioningClaims · 77 wordsAs my hon. colleague from the Bloc Québécois mentioned earlier in debate, this looks a lot like the Infrastructure Bank.Government money is put into it.1It is supposed to be a bank.It is supposed to sound great.At this point, particularly since we have no details, we are debating something that is amorphous.We know what happened with the Infrastructure Bank, Unearned certaintyand it does look much the same, as my friend from Yellowhead has said.
