$200M pledged for a sovereign space launch in Nova Scotia.
The site is a concrete pad.
Two rockets launched. Neither reached space.
Or Alberta could have bought 1,920.41 BTC.
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Tracking what Alberta sends Ottawa, and what we could have grown without that grift.
$200M pledged for a sovereign space launch in Nova Scotia.
The site is a concrete pad.
Two rockets launched. Neither reached space.
Or Alberta could have bought 1,920.41 BTC.
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Notley signed the rail contracts.
Kenney paid $1.5 billion to cancel them.
Two premiers. One bill.
Or Alberta could have bought 120,562.88 BTC.
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A $912M grant handed to a charity.
That charity had paid the PM's family about $425,000.
It collapsed on conflict-of-interest findings.
Or Alberta could have bought 73,302.23 BTC.
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Kenney bet $1.3B of public money on Keystone XL.
The bet needed Trump to win.
Biden killed it on day one.
Or Alberta could have bought 29,971.99 BTC.
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Federal spending with McKinsey passed $200M over eight years.
Much of it sole-sourced.
Two audits followed.
Or Alberta could have bought 6,767.07 BTC.
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$2.153B sunk into Calgary's Green Line.
Redesigned, shortened, restarted.
Or the City of Calgary could have bought 230,939.70 BTC.
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$59M to ineligible projects.
Conflict rules ignored 90 times.
Ottawa abolished the billion-dollar fund.
Or Alberta could have bought 687.75 BTC.
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$312M in public money for an arena for the already-profitable Oilers.
Or the City of Edmonton could have bought 514,342.24 BTC.
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A border app first quoted at $80,000.
The Auditor General put it near $59.5M.
The true number was impossible to pin down.
Or Alberta could have bought 1,926.51 BTC.
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An estimated $750M branding the budget as the "Economic Action Plan."
One ad promoted a grant that didn't exist yet.
Or Alberta could have bought 2,674,464.22 BTC.
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$100M in bike lanes.
Property taxes rose 6.6% that year.
The mayor called it an affordability measure.
Or the City of Edmonton could have bought 1,752.22 BTC.
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$24.5M for a footbridge.
Designed in Spain. Built in Spain. Opened 500 days late.
Three other pedestrian bridges within 900 metres.
Or the City of Calgary could have bought 4,729,729.73 BTC.
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$30M a year to fight oil critics online.
They plagiarized a logo. Got caught. Changed nothing.
$82,000 a day.
Or Alberta could have bought 3,226.91 BTC.
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A payroll system meant to save $70M a year.
It broke pay for tens of thousands.
Replacing it: at least $4.2B.
Or Alberta could have bought 10,983,550.83 BTC.
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$45K to fly the government jet to a funeral.
Nova Scotia's premier attended the same one for under $1,000.
Or Alberta could have bought 47.76 BTC.
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Bought for $4.5B to guarantee it got built.
Final price: about $34B.
Six times the estimate.
Or Alberta could have bought 3,508,199.90 BTC.
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$471K for a giant blue ring bolted to a Calgary overpass.
The mayor called it awful.
The ring stayed.
Or the City of Calgary could have bought 499.93 BTC.
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Heritage Fund today: $31.9B.
Add what 0.05% of the outflow in Bitcoin would be worth: $45.5B.
A 1.4X fund, from a rounding error.
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0.05% of what Ottawa took from us.
Bought monthly since 2013, before any government on earth held Bitcoin.
That's 133,474 Bitcoin, or $13.6B today.
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