Quebec Wants More Alberta Oil Revenue.

But Alberta's newly appointed Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Gary Mar says the province is already happily paying its membership fees to Confederation. "Overall, Canadians should recognize that resource revenues generated here in Alberta already benefit the rest of Canada fairly dramatically," said Mar, who was sworn in last week. "Alberta is a very proud part of Confederation. We are willing to pay our fair share ... ." Ottawa collects more taxes generated by oilsands than the Alberta government does, Mar stressed. Meanwhile, Albertans paid $29 billion in taxes to Ottawa last year, and received only $17 billion in government services in return, he said. "It's a tremendous benefit to all of Canada to ensure that the proper exploitation of the resources in Alberta continues to go on." http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=407ae280-9866-44b7-9728-9c27a52c557b&k=9861 [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on April 11, 2006]

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