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Q: Tell me about your book as a whole?
A: The global system as we understand it is highly artificial. The United States created it after the Second World War to fight the Cold War. guaranteed the security of the oceans, it would open its
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The American system expanded peace and prosperity throughout the world in a way the human race had never experienced before. But we did it to contain the Soviet Union. has been withdrawing from that system.
A: Two big things. will be energy independent by the end of 2016. Shale is severing the strongest link between us in North America and the rest of the world. The Middle East is becoming someone else's problem.
The second piece is demographics. The percentage of Americans who are baby boomers is smaller than the equivalent cohort elsewhere. Every other country (except New Zealand) has a much larger population hitting mass retirement, and you've got all the financial problems that come with that.
Q: Amid this interesting geopolitical shift, you devote a chapter to Alberta's possible secession.
A: Canada's demographic situation is similar to the rest of the developed world a large population moving toward retirement and hardly any young people in the replacement generation coming up.
However, Alberta does not fit that mould. It is the youngest province, and is becoming younger, better paid and more highly skilled as the rest of Canada becomes older and less skilled, and a ward of the state financially.
The other piece is, of course, energy.
British Columbia has been hostile to Alberta's efforts to diversity oil exports and the Atlantic is more than 2,000 miles away.
But really, it comes down to demographics. Right now, every man, woman and child in Alberta pay $6,000 more into the national budget than they get back. Alberta is the only province that is a net contributor to that budget by 2020, the number will exceed $20,000 per person, $40,000 per taxpayer. That will be the greatest wealth transfer in per capita terms in the Western world.
The only other place
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Q: Secession has been a dirty political word in Alberta for several years, with politicians rumoured to be secret secessionists. That talk died down when the Harper Conservatives were elected when a group of people who came out of the Alberta mould assumed power.
A: On Stephen Harper's watch, Alberta's tax bill has basically tripled.
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From my point of view, it doesn't matter if it's this government, the next government, or the one after. The demographic trends are locked in. If it left Canada, its currency goes through the roof because all it has is oil exports, and that would drive agriculture out of business. It would be a one horse economy in a very short time. becomes the only political and economic option.
If you do that, the inflation issue goes away, the tax problem goes away, the security problem goes away.
Q: Do you think the Americans would have us?
A: Americans have a reputation for being ignorant and short sighted, but I would be stunned if there was a single person in Congress who would think this a bad idea.
Q: In Alberta, the numbers and logic might make sense, but politically and culturally it still seems to be a huge stretch to think Albertans would seriously consider this.
A: I'm
pandora uk sale a forecaster. My job is to look at the trends of how the world works. Comfort makes people a little more passive and Canada is a comfortable place.
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