Interesting point about balancing the budget (we actually have had a balanced budget for years up here - although we still have a tonne of debt from when we didn't and in the form of future owed governement pensions), but Alberta where most of the oil is will have a $7billion surplus this year (these things fall under provincial, not federal control) and most of the rest of the country is squaking at the feds to take a lot of that money and spread it around. Alberta also has no debt, and the best health care and social services in the country, no provincial sales tax (about 8% everywhere else) and the lowest income tax rates in Canada. Time to move out west?

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Jason Priest
1999 E430
1995 E420 - retired
1986 420SEL - retired