RMR: Have and Have-nots Provinces

[howsitgoing242]

this is so true

[crudesicle]

did anyone else notice his face erupting in boils throughout the movie?

[JimmyG228]

"More please"... well said Rick lol

[LordMatt123]

*sigh* Manitoba...

[1killer2lover3hater]

edmonton is the best city in canada

[lepouceux]

@1killer2lover3hater its because you never been to MOntreal..

[mountaindrewbc]

why is every comment here a reply to someone else?

[jumpmansbro]

@mountaindrewbc Usually because this is YouTube and people love to have stupid arguments. Here, it's because most people watching this is Canadian and likes friendly chat.

[Muljinn]

@teahouse100 I have to disagree with your sentiment. I've lived in Alberta my entire life and while the country music from here tends to be less nausea inducing than the crap coming out of Nashville, it's not something to brag about either. Moreover, I rather like being part of Canada, even if does mean having to put up with Quebec's constant whining about how poorly treated they are.

[TooBeGoodAgain]

Hahaha, that was hilarious. "potash"

[jackiechan511]

The province of Quebec should have all equalization payments cut off.

[39maxpowers]

Quebec= more please?? That's sooo not true; quebecers NEVER say please!!

[Berco]

Rick Mercer, I love you. 

[itsmrbacon]

As an American I dont get it....what is a have or a have not Provonces....In the US each state has the same equity under the law with regards to Feds...Why is Canada so diffrent?

[cdenune]

@itsmrbacon It really has nothing to do with the law or court system to which I assume you are referring to. In Canada we have what's called transfer payments between the provinces. So, simply put, provinces that make a lot of money or a "have province" must give a portion of their excess earnings to the provinces that do not make a lot of money, or a "have-not province." It's socialism, and I assume you've been frightened.... spoooooooooky socialism.......

[snowboarder1019]

@itsmrbacon Like which has a big economy , recources , ect . Like you obviously knoow for alberta and we are rich but the maritimes dont have that big of economies so they dont have that much . Like that kind of sorting

[kaleb4444]

\/ and that ladies and gentlemen is a classic case of over reacting

[annakwan78]

Very witty writing!

[101101101777]

Rape of the true North

[ecologist96]

This video made me learn what "have and have-not provinces" are.

[akatsukimember123]

Grand Bank, And as the dispute over Old Harry rages on, We find ourselves confronted with the same old aggression by Quebec in a attempt to steal our resources once more with a boundary not even legit. It's because a small province like Newfoundland and Nova Scotia will always get pushed around and tread on by larger ones like Quebec. We are a friendly people who wishes to give Canada the best, we don't take kindly to being screwed with and will fight for what's ours.

[Baseshocks]

@akatsukimember123 i doubt the other provinces would give you the shaft, its Quebec enough said, the only reason they don't try and clam half of Ontario is that Ottawa is in the middle.

[nintendomanofgod]

more please hahaha

[2seasea]

Mercer you rock!!

[boundaryzero]

LOL.. "more please" 

Today Douchebag Duceppe announced that Quebec needs more money 5 billion or so. This even though they already receive 2x the amount per person in federal money that Ontario does.

[gitarzann]

Living in Potash is the best man

[dogthedog2]

so true about Ontario.

[indy66758]

were not newfies we are newfoundlanders and labridorians we are not laid back we work hard and during ww1 sacrificed atleast 3 generations in one battle and had a major impact on canadas economy so i dont think we are picks nor laid back

[MajBlood]

@indy66758 I definitely think Newfoundlanders are pricks. I think the misconception that they are nice, comes from the fact that if you are an idiot, like the majority of newfoundland, you will get along with everyone else. If fishing, drinking beer, sucking Danny Williams dick even though the majority of Newfoundlanders have no idea why they love him so much, and getting laid, are the greatest concerns of your life then you will get along fine with Newfoundlanders.

[MrZeus141]

i can tell youve never been there

[MajBlood]

@MrZeus141 I was born, raised and still currently live in Newfoundland. Asshole.

[MrZeus141]

@MajBlood ok man cool it im not being agressive. im just disagreeing with you thats all. no offence inteanded

[MrZeus141]

@MajBlood ok man cool it im not being agressive. im just disagreeing with you thats all. no offence inteanded. i just think newfoundland is a great place to live thats all.

[MajBlood]

@MrZeus141 Ok, do you live in Newfoundland as well?

[akatsukimember123]

@MajBlood Have you even met a Newfoundlander that you didn't see on TV? If you would know, Newfoundlanders are sick and tired of being shafted by government and Quebec especially for the biggest part of our history in Canada. Do you know they still print history books claiming that Labrador belongs to Quebec? Do you know about how our Fishery was raped by the Europeans? Granted, we could have stopped also, and the government did step in, but Europe was more responsible for what happened on the

[MajBlood]

@akatsukimember123 I am a Newfoundlander.

[lucy9359]

@MajBlood were all glad your not a Quebecer and were all sorry your on the other side of them!

[gundamWWW]

@MajBlood

So that's why you like the Monarchy so much!

[MajBlood]

@gundamWWW What does the Monarchy have to do with hating my province?

[gundamWWW]

@MajBlood

You seem to have forgotten, we had a really long discussion about the monarchy on the video titled "David Johnston All: University of Waterloo".

I never knew why you were a diehard devotee to the monarchy, but now I understand better. You live in Newfoundland, Rick Mercer said people there even fly the Union Jack. It is one of the more heavily "pro British" provinces. Larger provinces with racial diversity such as British Columbia, Ontario and now even Alberta are less pro Monarchy.

[MajBlood]

@gundamWWW Ah yes, sorry about that. While I can believe that fact, even in Newfoundland the monarchy is losing its support. Just about all of my friends despise the Queen. A real shame. Hopefully William and Kates wedding will change things.

[gundamWWW]

@MajBlood

I only know of two famous Newfoundlanders and their views on the monarchy. Rex Murphy and Rick Mercer, and well from their recent opinion pieces on the CBC, it seems like they are not monarchists (Mercer probably has Republican tendencies, drawing upon his famous rant). Mark Critch and Shaun Majumder I am not sure.

While I certainly won't be watching the wedding under any circumstance, I hope you enjoy it.

[00Billy]

@gundamWWW

I will back Mercer up 100% . I moved to NF for 9 yrs. Great people. Yes you still see lots of Union flags....and the same in Nova Scotia when I was there in the 80's.

I worry about a NF separatist party. They have oil and nickel to live off of...

[Offthehookdude]

@00Billy theres a newfoundland seperatist party?

[musicbrain5]

Good one! And Ontario is now officially a "have-not province" thanks to McGuinty.

[dogthedog2]

@musicbrain5 Agreed.

[okpapereat]

yyay were will always have

[thecanadianstoner1]

Newfoundlanders are having the last straw with Canada. If Newfoundland ever separated from Canada, the country would only experience more tax hikes. Newfoundland kept taxes down in western Canada ever since 1949....looks like western Canada is about to have a reality check, so you lazy western bastards, get off your lazy ass and work!

[893160007]

@thecanadianstoner1

its a joke calm down

[MYBATTLEBRIDE]

@thecanadianstoner1 i thought newfies were laid back...buddy is right calm down or seperate......jk

[MajBlood]

@MYBATTLEBRIDE Newfies are laid back but they are fucking pricks.

[jeveuxlesoleil]

@MajBlood Only about half of them, and it depends on where you're from.

[therrydicule]

@thecanadianstoner1 ... You're wrong: even if Newfoundlanders stay in Canada, Canada will experience more tax hikes. Cynical, yes... But do you really think that the deficit projections of the Harper gov't are realist?

[thecanadianstoner1]

@therrydicule The Harper Government is the worst Government ever! Think of this dude, If Newfoundland separated in the far future, parts of Canada would be in severe trouble. electricity will cost more than you could ever imagine. Quebec knows this, why do you think the Bloc is trying to prevent Newfoundland from putting a cable to NS and down to the states? Nothing is in it for Quebec and the number of years is counting down on the Churchill falls contract. NL will be the richest province.

[therrydicule]

@thecanadianstoner1 Look, I agree with some of your statement... I'm just being cynical ;) Electricity will goes up whatever happen because there is more and more demand for energy and the supply don't follow. Same thing with taxes: the policies in place right now could lead to hi-inflation, which mean eater hi-interest rate to curve down inflation or "taxes" in some years ;)

And, for wealth: if you take by capita, you're right; but I'm not sure about the distribution of this wealth...

[AlbertaRose94]

@thecanadianstoner1 Lazy western bastards? LAZY WESTERN BASTARDS?! Tip for you--don't smoke cheap weed and get on YouTube.

[thecanadianstoner1]

@AlbertaRose94 How aboot you go fuck yourself! how aboot you go fuck a horse buddy! lol. The weed is good!

[MYBATTLEBRIDE]

@AlbertaRose94 actually alberta for eg is well known for its indoor grown weed, like bc is known for its outdoor grown weed....pretty good stuff

[InsertDelicious]

@thecanadianstoner1 Ok buddy, Alberta pays way more in taxes than Newfoundland & Labrador because of the oil industry, so get off your high horse and realize that you live in a dirt-poor province since the moratorium, and the fact that you don't have much of a population means you don't get taxed that much.

I'm betting you feel you get taxed more because you don't earn that much money...... and that being a "stoner" means buying expensive drugs

[FatFred2U]

@thecanadianstoner1 You stupid newf fucktard (likes there's any other kind), one province, and one province only, has ALWAYS been a contributor to the Equalization FRAUD: ALBERTA! NewFuckland has been a welfare basket case for almost it's entire existence, and when it can FINALLY pay it's share, it doesn't. If it wasn't for ALBERTA money you'd have no offshore ATM and you'd still be a destitute pile of shit. So, at least you ain't poor anymore, but we should still sell you off to the Inuit.

[thecanadianstoner1]

@FatFred2U Jesus...you have got to be the dumbest mother fucker in the country for the shit you have just said! Newfoundland had a booming fishery back in the 50's and Newfoundland was doing better but you mainland fucks did not like the fact so of course the feds took control of it and closed down a huge chunk of fishery and sold it off to foreign bastards like chinks and gooks! Remember this, wise men come from the east dumb fucks are in the west! You better start bowing down to NL!

[FatFred2U]

@thecanadianstoner1 If you retreads are so smart, why can't you balance a budget. A six year-old at a candy store knows how much money he is allowed to spend. Fifty years on, and the brain-dead newfs haven't got that one one figured-out. How about if Alberta plays by your rules: oil revenues are excluded from equalization calculations. No more transfers to the leeches. You can rot in your third-world shit-hole of a province and starve.

Kiss my rich Alberta ass deadbeat!

[thecanadianstoner1]

@FatFred2U Listen up ya fat fuck, I balance my own budget better than you can speak, how about that... oh yeah it's aboot to you...how aboot that you dumb fuck Albertan! You dummies are the same as the ones Toronto that drink their shit and piss with toilet paper pulp only for you fuckers put oil in your own drinking water! Yeah you're a fucking genius! Newfoundland is far from being a "third world shit hole"! The federal Government striped Newfoundland's fishing and sold it off! Go fuck urself

[thecanadianstoner1]

@thecanadianstoner1 Why do I get the feeling that you are a worthless native Indian....hmm, Ya fucking wild animal!

[FatFred2U]

@thecanadianstoner1 Alberta oil money is the only thing separating newfs from a third world existence. Alberta oil money is what made Hibernia possible. Leave it to a newf to be too stupid to know that and too full of himself to bother to say Thanks!

Oh, and if you balance your budget as poorly as you write then you probably emerge further in debt AFTER you take your empties to the recyclers. Thanks for providing ample proof of what a moron you are.

[insertpunhere367]

Lol pei ditto! Even though I never see a homeless person and our poverty rate is dropping

[SolOfTheArcangel]

I'm a still have, whoo hoo hahah go Canucks hahahaha

[Bus7777]

"Never Had, Never Will." That sounds about right! :-P

[WhatTheHellisHockey]

yeah ;)

[byranntherockstar1]

That's right Rick, we New Brunswickers don't quite have. Lol

[iMiiTH]

LOL. 'Ditto'

[Infinitygirl28]

haha XD I want more please. We look so self-fish and cheap.

[lynnshell78]

so ture rick bc is still has

[angelinajohnson32]

WOW im potash lol

[angelinajohnson32]

WOW im potash

[engRyan]

lmao, MOAR PLEEZE!

[captancomet]

i never forget going to sask... what the hell are all those red mountains there's no mountains in the parries. then i asked and found out the red mountains were it pot ash!

[Edwarden]

He is a ass

[vilmad007]

too funny, had to watch it several times and each time was funny

[rangedtiger]

LOL at "more please" ha ha

[ryfin2000]

Lol "more please"

[simplic10]

HAH! Gold.

[canamSK]

potash :)

[BillZeGreat]

So true.

Alberta WILL always have with it's polluting oil sands

Newfoundland, even if you have, ha ha.

Quebec: More please. And more. And more.

Spot on.

[musicbrain5]

Too bad those oil sands are turning northern Alberta into the Moon!

And Ontario, and even right down to Toronto (where I live), won't be able to gain back what it had because of GM and Chrysler.

[engRyan]

@musicbrain5 I wish you people would come up to fort mac once and see the reclaimed sites. And soon we will have a reclaimed tailings pond and you will really no longer have an argument.

[FatFred2U]

@BillZeGreat Those "polluting oil sands" are what's standing between a 45 cent dollar and the rest of Canada's third world destiny!

[Mehtaphorical]

@FatFred2U Pffft, if you weren't driving up the value of our dollar with your oil our central Canadian manufacturing could be viable again and we could have our jobs back.

[FatFred2U]

@Mehtaphorical Central Canada's (read: Ontario's) manufacturing decline has nothing to do with Alberta's oil. When the price of oil was at historical lows in the nineties, the Liberal incompetence of Chretien/Martin was driving our dollar below 70 cents. That meant the manufacturing sector could not make the investments which are needed to stay competitive (training, technology and equipment upgrades). The Lib Bunglers eventually gave us a sub-60 cent dollar and killed manufacturing in Canada.

[FatFred2U]

@FatFred2U Brian Mulroney and Michael Wilson got it right when they said the sweet spot for our export economy was a dollar valued between $0.85 - $0.89. That was high enough to deliver the profits to grow the business and low enough to give Canadian companies a price advantage over their American competitors. As It is though, a Liberal decade of unbalanced federal budgets, hidden deficits and phony surpluses drove our dollar into the basement and killed Ontario's economy. It ain't coming back!

[FatFred2U]

@FatFred2U If the price of oil dropped below $60/bbl, three things would happen: our stock markets would crash, our dollar would go below $0.75 and Canada's one functioning Provincial economy would stall ( which means that five Provinces could say goodbye to the Equalization Welfare Trough and could start getting used to their true third-world status). What wouldn't happen is a revitalization of Ontario's manufacturing economy. It moved abroad and it's not coming home.

[FatFred2U]

@FatFred2U By the way, in Alberta there's more jobs than people to fill them, housing prices are relatively affordable and we look forward to Canadians joining in our prosperity. Of course you'll have to stop blaming Alberta for the destruction of your Provincial economy (we didn't vote in your provincial Governments or, for that matter, the Lib Clown's from 1993 - 2006) and stop crying about how things used to be. Get on with it and get it done!

[snowboarder1019]

@FatFred2U house prices are affordable in alberta???

[FatFred2U]

@snowboarder1019 I said "relatively affordable". If you're living in the Maritimes making $ 25K/yr, Alberta house prices may seem high. Here, a first year framer can make $40K/year without overtime (and there is LOTS OF OVERTIME, if you want it). Buy the house you need not the one that makes you look like an overspending fool.

[snowboarder1019]

@FatFred2U 600,000$ + is not affortable 2-3k a month for an apartment is not affortable (In Fort Mcmurray) 400-500k in Calgary not affortable , For edmonton idk and dont care cause i dont like edmonton xD

[unifieddynasty]

@FatFred2U "By the way, in Alberta there's more jobs than people to fill them"

Complete and utter bs, sorry. The Calgary Board of Education alone just cut 200 teaching jobs. Plus jobs other than engineering or medicine are utterly nonexistent.

As for your 'relatively affordable' housing? A condominium in Calgary costs roughly $300 grand, a house $400+ grand. And we're not talking about luxury living.

[persiasand]

@unifieddynasty of course houses in the capital cost a lot, the suburbs is where it gets affordable.

[unifieddynasty]

@persiasand Oh, were you talking about near the city centre? Well then consider $500 grand the cheapest. Unless you live in Chinatown.

[FatFred2U]

@unifieddynasty Check Service Canada's Job Bank (or Monster[dot]ca, JobShop[dot]ca, etc.,..) there's tens of thousands of very good paying jobs in this province. Employers that used to take applicants only if they had 5+ years experience are now advertising those positions for 1-3 years experience, and often "will train, no experience required". Maybe you're career path to narrowly, who knows, but there is more than enough work to go around and the pay is damned good.

[FatFred2U]

@unifieddynasty In Edmonton, McDonald's is advertising starting wages of $11.50/hr. That's $2.10/hr above minimum wage and they can't get applicants. If that doesn't scream WORKER SHORTAGE, I don't know what will. There's plenty of 3-4 bedroom condo's selling below $300K and $350K-375K will get you a nice 4 bed bungalow in an established neighbourhood. Sure you can find the $500K broom closet loft downtown or the 1 Mil+ cookie-cutter in the new subs, but why would you?

[unifieddynasty]

@FatFred2U You must be from up North, whereas I'm down South. Just don't claim Alberta as a whole is doing infinitely better than the rest of Canada. It isn't :/

And when corporate tax cuts are enlarged once again, you can kiss your funding in Edmonton goodbye.

[TooBeGoodAgain]

@unifieddynasty Alberta is Canada's bank, our resources give money to the entire country. If it weren't for this province, Canada would be in a much worse place financially. So it's no wonder that people from Alberta are proud of their province, and enjoy living here. The rest of Canada is awesome too, but they all favor their provinces over others as well.

[TooBeGoodAgain]

@unifieddynasty Definitely agreeing with you, Alberta is funding a ton of road construction just to make jobs. So if we have "more jobs then we can fill" why would they worry about creating more jobs? And yeah, housing is extremely expensive. Even though in comparison, we have an abundance of jobs... the wages they offer are nothing close to what it costs to get a mortgage on a decent place.

[Muljinn]

@TooBeGoodAgain They're funding road construction because the gov't did squat for infrastructure work for over a decade & the changing demographics is forcing it on them. Not saying that every road being built is absolutely necessary, but claiming that they're just make work projects is flat out wrong.

[snowboarder1019]

@unifieddynasty Actually yea cause our un=employment is 5,3% and 4-5% is when there are no people to fill the jobs

[snowboarder1019]

@unifieddynasty Yea un-employment is around 4-5% which is when there starts to be more jobs than people

[magical11]

@unifieddynasty More affordable than Vancouver at least.

[boundaryzero]

@unifieddynasty .... you can get a newer 2bdrm condo in Calgary 15 min from DT for 200k.

[unifieddynasty]

@boundaryzero Somehow, I really doubt that, considering it's proximity to downtown and its 'newer' factor. And besides, 2 bedrooms doesn't make a condo :P

[boundaryzero]

@unifieddynasty .. well that depends on your definition of a condo I guess.

But, yea I live in an all concrete 4 storey building, 15-20 minutes from downtown (Erinwoods). Prices are around 200k for a 2 bdrm suite.

[NOS604]

@unifieddynasty Can't say for the jobs, but from here in Vancouver those houses are a steal.

[BrandonSchleifer]

@unifieddynasty The problem is, even if there are more jobs than people to fill them, it's still possible to have massive unemployment. If, for 100 people, there are 20 teaching jobs, 10 medical jobs, 20 public jobs, 50 engineering jobs, and 10 other jobs, and there are 40 teachers, 5 doctors, 25 engineers, and 30 other, then you have 20 unemployed teachers, 20 unemployed other, 40% unemployment, and 10% more jobs than people.

[brittanytopham11]

So true!

[Kraktzor]

ROFLMAO!!

[ChicCanadian]

I love being an Albertan!!!!!

[niptacularclam]

Huzzah for potash! =)

[anatainu]

hell yea hahaha

[cndn85MB]

I love this! He's certainly on the money!

[willowbud]

Oh poor Quebec.....It's so hard being Quebecois in Canada...

[thunderflash82]

Quebec: "more please"

[stefrockets]

@thunderflash82 yup when it comes to Quebec the term Never enough comes to mind

[SHOK11POA]

Best thing ever

[rtsoccerplayer]

lol more please for quebec...hahaha

[derkaderka58]

"Never had, never will"

"Who knows, might have"

"Could have, but even if it does have, you cant have"

"More please"

"Potash"

Lol, Mercer is king

[sewarforlife]

@derkaderka58 what is have and have not.

[akje93]

more please, lol, so true. Rick Rox

[jasperjones22]

lol potash