I love your idealistic idiocy and generalizations of a province of 4 million people. Let's quickly review your moronic track record in this brief conversation:

MM Assertion #1: All Albertans are gun-toting, redneck, Harper fanboys.

• Nope. I'm actually vehemently anti-gun, wouldn't drive a pick-up if you paid me, and have never (and likely will never) cast a vote for Conservative candidate.

MM Assertion #2: The NEP only hurt Alberta "a little bit."

• Nope. The "figures" demonstrate that despite record high oil prices, bankruptcies in Alberta increased at 3 times the national average during the years NEP was in place.

MM Assertion #3: We're like, all Canadians, you know! So I like tote magotes think all Canadians should get some of that oil money!!

• Nope. This goes completely against the political and economic setup of our nation, and demonstrates a profound ignorance in your understanding of reality. Furthermore, why should you get a nice payday when it's Albertans that are paying to develop the resuorce and suffering from the problems that come along with massive oil production? How is that remotely fair?

MM Assertion #4: Norway (and I think maybe Sweden, but I'm too lazy to find out for sure) totally stuck it to the oil companies and now they're like, totally as rich as Beyonce and Jay-Z.

• Yup, to an extent. Norway has undoubtedly managed it's oil wealth FAR better than Alberta has (trust me, I'm no fan of the government in this province), but Norway also has some advantages Alberta doesn't:

1. Alberta oil costs more to produce.
2. Norway sells at the world price, land-locked Alberta gets a lower price for its crude.
3. Unlike Alberta (population 4 million), Norway (population 5 million) doesn't have to subsize 30 million other people to the tune of a FEW BILLION DOLLARS IN EQUALIZATION PAYMENTS EVERY FUCKING YEAR.

So there are the facts, do with them what you like. While I fundamentally agree with you that Alberta has squandered a large chunk of its resource wealth and likely could (if it can manage to get some pipelines built to exploit world crude prices) get a better royalty deal from Big Oil, I disagree that any of your ideas for pulling wealth out of Alberta and into your greedy hands are politically and economically possible, fair to Albertans, or even coherent by any reasonable standard.