<![CDATA[In the first month of the US-Israeli war on Iran, the Canadian oil industry made after-tax profits in excess of $6 billion -- $4 billion more than it pocketed the month before.]]>In the first month of the US-Israeli war on Iran, the Canadian oil industry made after-tax profits in excess of $6 billion -- $4 billion more than it pocketed the month before. It is well past time Canada applied a windfall tax on these excess profits:

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The oil industry is making billions from the Iran war—it should be taxed - CCPA

The current windfall could be Canadian oil's final boom—so the proceeds must be reinvested into economic diversification and industrial planning

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CCPA - (www.policyalternatives.ca)

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OTOH, a solid majority of Canadians have supported windfall taxes on the oil industry for years now. Carney used to pretend to care what the "owners of Canada" thought -- it will be even more difficult to influence LPC policy now he's in a majority, but we have to keep trying, right?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/atomicker/statuses/116405594373446428https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/atomicker/statuses/116405594373446428Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:13:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to In the first month of the US-Israeli war on Iran, the Canadian oil industry made after-tax profits in excess of $6 billion -- $4 billion more than it pocketed the month before. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:43:23 GMT]]>@atomicker would be nice but it would require a federal gov willing to tolerate the tantrums that Alberta is already throwing anyway. Or it would require Alberta’s to elect something other than the oil industry as a government.

But maybe I’m to cynical. There is oil and gas extraction in other provinces as well.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://types.pl/users/danbrotherston/statuses/116405240052717456https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://types.pl/users/danbrotherston/statuses/116405240052717456Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:43:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to In the first month of the US-Israeli war on Iran, the Canadian oil industry made after-tax profits in excess of $6 billion -- $4 billion more than it pocketed the month before. on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:58:53 GMT]]>@atomicker , yes, so should every other country.
A government that is standing by while it's people are being robbed is failing it's duty and should be sacked.

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