Richard Gray Study

[parsley]

Richard Gray et al are preaching about Dutch
Disease. Wanna bet the Mulcarians keep pushing
to try and squeeze more tax $ out of the Western
oil-rich provs? Richard Gray, uhhhhhhh Pars


http://www.irpp.org/show_study.php?id=395

[bduke]

Parsley... The National Energy Program enacted by Rt. Hon P E Trudeau and
Hon Marc Lalonde breached the rights of Provincial jurisdiction over
resources.

Hon Marc Lalonde admitted the program was to help maintain the power of
Central Canada, as Alberta was becoming too wealthy.

We have had a Federal excise tax on oil and gas production since.

The last paragraph of your link follows...

The resource-rich provinces would also be well advised to adopt policies to
ensure that neither public finances nor the economy becomes too dependent
on natural resources, because history has shown that prices and demand can
fluctuate widely and suddenly. Avoiding such dependence will help ensure
that the resource blessing currently enjoyed by some regions does not
become a curse for the country..... end of link.

This summary seems to counter argue the deemed "Dutch disease" this same
panel claims is somewhat affecting Canada.

Regardless, IMHO there will never be enough taxation, fees or tookage to full
fill Mulcair's spending desires.

Bill

[boarderbloke]

You know, this Moleclair is really buging me, those asses didn't give a sweet damn about how the interest rates were killing us out here in West during the late 80's to early 90's. Their economy in central Canada was booming like hell, and the Bank of Canada just kept raising the interest rates week after week to try and cool things down. Now the shoe is on the other foot and they can't stop whining(or making politcal hay) one or the other.

http://www.bcrealtor.com/d_bkcan.htm

[parsley]

I'm heads up as soon as reports start flowing,
reports that need to be funded. I can't even begin
to calculate how many funding dollars from the
Wheat Board that Gray ate up. But you can bet
that Western oil money will look promising to
funding-hunters. Pars.

[ColevilleH2S]

The goose is laying too many golden eggs and Thomas Mulcair etal. think we should strangle it. These people think it will cause too much prosperity. WTH are they smokin'.

I have a little advice for them;
Take the Money and Run...duhh.

[furrowtickler]

Is this the same Richard Gray that taught Ag econ at the U of S in the early 90's???

[hobbyfrmr]

furrow, I am pretty sure thats the same Richard Gray. He was a fairly quiet person, mustache, I think he was an assistant prof at the time. I recall he helped with that farm accounting program. Actually pretty smart guy doing some economic studies for extra $$$ over and above working for the U of S. I wonder what his union thinks of this. Maybe all his salaries are contracted. Ironic!

[parsley]

Same Gray from Red Square who eased
research- millions out of the CWB Pooling
accounts.

[hobbyfrmr]

I don't quite follow parsley? CWB funds from the
pools went to research at the u of s? For
agronomics, economics, or both?

[parsley]

The largest funders for the countless Dept of Ag
Economics CWB studies at the U of S was the
Saskatchewan government and the CWB. The
CWB funding came put of farmers' pooling
accounts. Rossassan is head of the Ag Econ
Dept and he and Gray were more than pleased
to count on your $$ to crank out report, after
study, after analysis, after commentary ad
nauseum. Both fanatically defended the single
desk. both fought for the status quo. Both
watched farmers jailed. Both funded Pars.

[hobbyfrmr]

Well, that's one way to get food on the table! I
would defend it too if you kept hiring me to crank
out the same stuff. Yeah the jailed farmer think
must have been overlooked somehow. There
must have been a philosophy professor, or ethics
professor that tried to highlight the jail viewpoint at
a drunken Christmas party or something. Then
again.....don't bite hand that feeds you!!

[sumdumguy]

Do you know greases their palms?

I cant help but believe all those factual statistics
- yes siree.

[furrowtickler]

Ya hobby your right. It all makes sense now. He does not farm does he?? Just hung around the U ofS for 30 years right?

[hobbyfrmr]

I don't recall if he farmed. At that time there was a
good cross section of profs who did farm. Tom
Allen, Discer Bob Dodds, Morris Sebulsky.
Remember the economics prof who wrote the
huge manual on that AG economics program, he
farmed for a time near Aberdeen, it did not work
out for him so he became an AG ec prof at the U
of S. Brown was his name I think.

[furrowtickler]

Yuup, kinda fogy but yuup . Tom was very good ,
bob was a complete knob