Canada - economic aspects of the country's land use

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, The,  Dec, 2000  by Garry B. Nixon

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(22.) John Blair, The Control of Oil (New York: Random House, 1976) pp. 268-272.

(23.) This credit against domestic profits was stopped by the Reagan Tax Reform in 1986. Except innocuously enough, as the Act states, ".. . for any company incorporated in Barttlesville, Oklahoma on July 11, 1917." Readers may be left to guess where and when Phillips Petroleum came into existence.

(24.) L. J. Kavic and G. B. Nixon, 1200 Days--A Shattered Dream (Vancouver: Kaen Publishers, 1978), pp. 104-110.

(25.) Ken Drushka, Stumped (Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1985), pp. 91-114.

(26.) Bob Williams in private conversation with the author.

(27.) As the forestry resource was so undervalued, little attempt was made to replenish it and consequently harvesting amounts were reduced. It remains to be seen whether the new talk of renewing forests through improved sivilculture and "sustainable" development will lead to anything more than just talk.

(28.) For example, the exhaustive report prepared for the Manitoba government in the mid-1970s by the ex-Quebec and federal cabinet minister (and former head of the Montreal Board of Trade) Eric Kierens.

(29.) Wilson Parasiuk in private conversation with the author.

(30.) The hapless Quebec government similarly nationalized the mining of a major mineral within its boundaries. Unfortunately, the environment and health costs by now had been realized, for this mineral at least-their Asbestos Company was to run up deficits in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

(31.) The habitual ignoring of the rent question by government officials can even be contagious. During the rule of BC's Socialist government in the 1970s, the resources minister let it be known that he favored development of yet another of the provinces' huge coal mines: the southwestern Hat Creek fields. He stated they could fuel generators at below the cost of some of the province's hydro projects. Quite apart from the environment costs of acid rain and post-mining restorations, the resources minister (who was a Georgist!!!) forgot to factor in the cost of resource rent to be paid to government.

(32.) Not that the US government captured all the rent, but several businesses moved to Washington State due to its now extremely low power costs.

(33.) The province directly west of Quebec has had government owned electrical generators for over seventy years. Ontario Hydro however, has squandered much of that province's hydro rent on subsidizing nuclear power (with even more subsidies to be required for future decontamination and waste that has a half life of thousands of years).

(34.) Three justices said they had claim to the land. Three said they did not, and one said they didn't even have the right to be in court without the province's permission.

(35.) According to Robin Richardson, a Victoria financial consultant.

(36.) Problems are now coming to light over just who is an Indian. In the Vancouver suburb of Coquitlam, a group many times larger than the original local Indian contingent is claiming entitlement rights.