The population per delegate is unfairly divided that way as in a delegate in that region will have a pop of about 100 k to speak for versus anywhere else it is 130k to 140 k pop per delegate. To add to that, midwest Canada is like mid west US, we are mostly farms, mountains and boreal forest in other words rural lands as far as the eye can see so the population isn't large. The dense population helps the 2 cities along with that's where the un-elite live also where all of our money is getting sucked to in a interprovincial socialist program called federal Equalization Payments where provinces that make more contribute more taxes t help lift the basic standard of living for all Canadian. Sounds nice ate first glance right?

Quebec isn't a have not province and they have the best social programs in the entire country but they are also theones blocking our industry and buying foreign oil viaUS but I just read Biden is cancelling that so who the the fuck knows, maybe suddenly our oil wont be so dirty anymore and our pipelines for transportation wont be as offensive? Our leader is a globalist puppet, they must have some good dirt on him.

The part that is real fucked in all of this, Quebec never signed the confederation and refuse to sign it. That is the document that unifies all of the Republics (provinces& territories) as one country and until it is signed by all territories the agreement isn't ratified. So for one we never were a country yet, we are supposed to be a group of independent republics making our Federal government a scam outfit to begin with, it never had legitimacy. Secondly, why is the only province not signatory receiving a grotesque portion of payment from a country they refuse to join. That money , poor people assume it's corporate money and taxes paying this and suck it dry like it's free money, the corporations are doing the same and middle class pays that equalization via our income tax. After all the income tax and all the sales tax, carbon (air) tax and tax on top of tax over 50% of our incomes are taxes (over 30% before you even get your paycheck) for anyone earning 6 figure income. In other words, on a normal work year without a hostile goverment, I would, and many more Albertans pay about 30k-40k per year in taxes to receive 5k worth of services. The rest goes to the "have nots"

The problem is more what the taxes are being spent on, lavish politician globe trotting vacations during the pandemic while telling everyone not to go visit grandma family or friends for christmas. Our taxes were used to funnel money to shady well known charities tied to criminal activity (we don't need to get into specifics) that much ends up getting lost funding terrorism in the middle east. Some of it is spent on destroying our economy funding eco protests while some spent on hookers and blow and diamonds for gadaffi's son (for whatever reason...once again snc lavalin, whatever he got seized with when he got caught in South-America, was courtesy of Canadian tax payer). So many freaking scandals. They paid a terrorist that was detained at GITMO millions of dollars and made him a fucking celebrity and guest speaker at universities. Under the emergency cerb payment for the pandemic (UBI light), they paid 300k teenagers living at their parents house going to high school 2k/month (for a total of 14k each) meanwhile the population was really struggling. It was intended to help canadians impacted by the mass job loss we experienced but much of it went to people that didn't qualify because they had been on social assistance all along already so now they are looking how to claw it back from a lot of the people it got paid to, it's a mess.

Under that same plan, they gave a bunch of money to corporations that claimed to be struggling to save jobs meanwhile they were paying themselves and shareholders with huge dividends and laid off everyone anyway but their excuse was well it was different money we already had. Some of these included for profit long term care homes that have experienced difficulties and sub standard conditions that led to many covid outbreaks ravaging the elderly right now including some being abandoned all together because the staff is so low paid and overworked, they had to call in the military to help while fat cats are bankrollin. To this day, it persists.

So the rest of us are like why are we pushing ourselves to pay for this fuckery. The saddest part is, the same people doing it to us are the same people covertly doing it to you. Canadian corporations rape the resources of African countries. They may not be outright Canadian but will have many large Canadian shareholders that own other corporations here, if you really take the time to inspect and investigate. Canada is where the shady funding funnels thru because of lack of regulation, why we are seen as the nice problem solver because we are, we are the background facilitator to all the bullshit because who doesn't trust Canada eh!

I guess it's different here than where you live in that aspect, tech doesn't always pay the best because everyone rushes for white collar job/degree so the market is oversaturated, many with university degrees don't work in their respective fields no it's nothing more than an expensive piece of paper they can't really do anything with. If you go in rare and highly skilled trade in the oil/nuclear and coal power production/fertilizer plants, any unit that generates highly pressurized steam generation and superheated units used in basically any heavy industrial setting but very common in oil refining. Our organization were the inventors of the steam locomotive and steamships but we are still blue collar work but damn you make a killing but it's super hard and dangerous ( we work in explosive atmosphere and with inert atmospheres, under water in shipyards, hanging in the air standing on a structural beam(tied off but sometimes as high up as 240 ft in the air) assembling processing equipment along with other weird shit)along with lots of training and safety codes so it's still a 3 year degree plus all the continual side training but it's so rare that it's mostly funded by the government but people here laugh at those jobs yet it's very similar to engineer, just more hands on, I never heard anyone spit on an engineering degree before, blows my mind. It's how I lifted myself out of poverty and it pays well everywhere in the world. I moved here for a better life and I'm hoping I can stay here because I don't want to uproot my life again. Lucky I put some away for the good days to survive the last few years but I would like to start moving forward again as I'm not getting any younger and it is a young man's game, I'm neither or.

You could also point out how socialist values can work, I was tax payer and union funded out of poverty and have since contributed large amounts of tax revenue for the last 15 years both to my country and organization. But what we got now, it aint workin. If we paid a percentage of the taxes we pay to cover essentials like roads, hospitals , getting clean water and affordable food to northern indigenous communities(they live in third world country conditions up there), healthcare, schools, police, military and a basic standard of living, you know. For the rest well like you said, people can privately fund these programs by selecting them with an other portion of our taxes like higher education, special needs programs, veteran programs homeless programs. Another portion could be used to fund corporations or industries in trouble that we want to help individually. A blockchain program would probably make that possible.

The thing is with with taxing usage of gas, it impacts everyone especially the poor. We live in a country where we have to heat our homes at the tune of $200/month or more for half the year, $200 is being cheap because I live in the middle townhouse so I only heat 2 walls. In a country where you probably don't have to heat your home or live 6 months in mostly darkness, you might not factor that in. Plus all the food needs transportation, the cost gets absorbed into the price of essential goods making it harder to access for many. Sounds practical until you actually put it in practice.

Like you, I don't live lavishly and don't work year round but I do indulge a bit and save some here and there diversifying into strange unpopular undervalued assets. I worry a lot about my future but that stems from my childhood I think so I constantly squirled away since and now I'm seeing all these things go up in value so as much as I worry, I remain calm, my savings are getting spent but not my investments. With all the hyperinflation coming after the pandemic, it's probably better off where it currently is and all can only go up while my pension I worked so hard for tanks, can I at least break even? Time will tell. I'm going to give it a couple more years out here in the oil industry but if that keeps getting beat up I have been pondering moving to Ontario (eww) and switch over to Nuclear power production with a 10 year work vision.

The pr for Canada is good because there is no free press, only government sponsored propaganda.