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When Talyna Despins isn’t training for the Special Olympics or volunteering at Tennilles Soup Kitchen, she works at her business making fresh baked nutritious dog treats. Talayna’s Critter Treats can be found at the Whitecourt Farmer’s Market every Tuesday, while the Farmer’s Market is open. She can also be contacted at 780-706-2379 or [email protected]

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(Continued from page 5) no, the Alberta insurrectionists of the 1930’s were not The guaranteed income concept has been around for fools. They were merely, perhaps, a little premature.” some time. Five experiments occurred in North America in the 1970’s, with the lone Canadian experience being Now a basic income project is moving back to a pro- in Dauphin, Manitoba. The results from the latter experi- vincial level in Ontario. However, this time the main- ment were generally positive. Hospital admissions went stream media is generally supportive. Perhaps this is down, high school graduation rates went up, and em- because of the differences in the types of basic income ployment did not decrease signifi cantly, being proposed. with the exception of mothers with young children. The point might be made that “Aberhart said The social credit version of a basic in- employment did not decrease at all, with there was within the come, the National Dividend, rested on the the mothers, and nowadays fathers, sim- country suffi cient concept that in a highly automated soci- ply trading in less important jobs for the ety a basic income was a birthright. Most more important job of raising children. wealth to put all our of the production of goods and services is farms and resources now the result of automated processes by Alberta was the Canadian pioneer in back to work. He machines, not labour. Many of the inven- exploring a form of basic income. In the was absolutely tors and innovators of the processes have 1930’s, the Social Credit government of passed, and what is more, much of the pro- the day attempted to implement a light right as the ensuing duction increase is due to non-copyrighted version of what social credit policy terms Second World War improvements. Social credit termed the re- a National Dividend. The attempt was would swiftly prove. sulting surplus production to be a ‘cultural derided with a concerted sneer campaign heritage’. That is, it was an inheritance of about ‘funny money’ in the mainstream So no, the Alberta the individual from the efforts of previous press and culminated in the Supreme insurrectionists of generations. The amount of the national Court of overturning provincial the 1930’s were not dividend would depend on the productive efforts to enact the change. capacity of the nation. Money earned by fools. They were labour, private investments, copyrighted Eminent Albertan historian James H. merely, perhaps, a improvements and so on would not be af- Gray gave a more mature analysis. He little premature. fected. The money system itself was to be stated “Aberhart was jeered for promising reformed to accomplish this so that private everybody twenty-fi ve dollars a month. ” institutions no longer were allowed to cre- Yet within ten years of his fi rst term, the federal govern- ate money from nothing and charge compound interest ment introduced the “baby bonus”, which provided fi ve on it. Instead, each individual of the community would dollars a month for each child. Since the average family benefi t from the money creation. then had between four and fi ve children, this amounted to approximately the same sum... Aberhart said there was In contrast, the Ontario effort tends towards the view within the country suffi cient wealth to put all our farms that somehow government is making possible the basic and resources back to work. He was absolutely right as income possible, rather than the productivity of citizens the ensuing Second World War would swiftly prove. So (Continued on page 11) JUNE 2017 Community Advisor PAGE 11 WWinin A LaptopLaptop Contest!Contest! Congratulations to: Dave Widders our May Winner! AApproximatepproximate HHere'sere's HHowow IItt WWorks:orks: AALLLL EENTRIESNTRIES WWILLILL ValueValue Find the hidden OOZZ iinn oonene ooff oourur aadvertisersdvertisers adsads BBEE ENTEREDENTERED IINN Win every month and we will enter your name in our Me! $ TTHEHE DDRAWRAW TTOO 445050 MonthlyM Draw for a $50 Gift Certificate! OOurur ‘‘WinWin a PLUSPLUSS a chancechan to win... 11.).) FindFind tthehe OOZZ $ -or- $ LLaptopaptop Contest’Contest’ 50 50 22.).) Email:Email: [email protected],[email protected], oorr ccallall 7780-778-394980-778-3949 Freddy’s 2-1 Pizza Oz Media DDrawraw wwillill bbee mmadeade oonn Gift Certifi cate Gift Certifi cate 33.).) WeWe enterenter YYOUROUR namename inin ourour monthlymonthly drawdraw DDecemberecember 115th,5th, 22017017 1 DDrawraw EEveryvery MMonthonth

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When Model T Fords appeared on the local scene a few years later, it is interesting to note that a one way trip to consumed sev- en hours, and as one member of the R.C.M.P. so aptly put it, “Edmonton was seven hours and many tears away”.

However, the area between here and los- egun Lake (it was known as Hash Lake then and is now called Fox Creek) supplied an abun- dance of fur, and Indians with dog teams were a fairly common sight. Author Jerry Graham, left, with Nels Lyons and Syd Pomfret JUNE 2017 Community Advisor PAGE 17 (Continued from page 16) something of an extravagant statement, let him rest as- sured that same is not that of the author, but the studied opinion of a qualifi ed gentleman who acted in the capac- Lawyer ity of Fishery Inspector at that time. He attributed the large size and excellent quality to the abundance of feed Dennis B. Denis, Q.C in the lake. Fax: 780-425-1222 While no one actually tried to deposit fur with the Email: [email protected] Bank, a muskrat skin was, to quote Gus Chaisson, “legal tender”.

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If China Can Fund infrastructure structure Week” by the US Chambers of Commerce, the with Its Own Credit, So Can We American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and over 150 affi liates. Their message: “It’s time to rebuild.” Ever by Ellen Brown since ASCE began issuing its “National Infrastructure Report Card” in 1998, the nation has gotten a dismal Editor’s Note: Although the fol- grade of D or D+. In the meantime, the estimated cost lowing article is about the U.S. system, of fi xing its infrastructure has gone up from $1.3 trillion it also applies to Canada. Indeed the to $4.6 trillion. process would be easier here in that we already have our publicly owned While American politicians debate endlessly over Bank of Canada to act as the fi nancing ve- how to fi nance the needed fi xes and which hicle. Currently the Trudeau government ones to implement, the Chinese have man- is working on a new Infrastructure Bank “The process aged to fund massive infrastructure proj- instead, in which private entities who have by which money ects all across their country, including access to money created from nothing will 12,000 miles of high-speed rail built just loan it to us at compound interest. As econ- is created is so in the last decade. How have they done it, omist John Kenneth Galbraith famously simple the mind is and why can’t we? stated, “The process by which money is repelled. created is so simple the mind is repelled.” A key difference between China and To this may be added the current money ” the US is that the Chinese government creation process is so fl agrantly unjust that most people owns the majority of its banks. About 40% of the fund- have trouble understanding what is really an simple, ob- ing for its giant railway project comes from bonds issued vious, offi cially sanctioned fraud on the public. by the Ministry of Railway, 10-20% comes from provin- cial and local governments, and the remaining 40-50% May 15th-19th has been designated “National Infra- is provided by loans from federally-owned banks and (Continued on page 19)

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In a November 2014 editorial titled How Two Bil- Privatization (or “asset relocation” as it is sometimes lionaires Are Destroying High Speed Rail in America, euphemistically called) means selling public utilities to author Julie Doubleday observed that the US push private equity investors, who them rent them back to the against public mass transit has been led by a think tank public, squeezing their profi ts from high user fees and called the Reason Foundation, which is funded by the tolls. Private equity investment now generates an aver- Koch brothers. Their $44 billion fortune comes largely (Continued on page 22) from Koch Industries, an oil and gas conglomerate with a vested interest in mass transit’s competitors, those sin- gle-rider vehicles using the roads that are heavily subsi- dized by the federal government.

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D If the goal is to privatize and monetize public assets, the last thing Republicans are going to do is fund and maintain public confi dence in such assets. Rather, when private equity wants to ac- PAGE 22 Community Advisor JUNE 2017 (Continued from page 21) are an expensive and ineffi cient way of fi nancing infra- age return of about 11.8 percent annually on a ten-year structure and divert government spending away from basis. That puts the cost to the public of fi nancing $1 other public services. They conceal public borrowing, trillion in infrastructure projects over 10 years at around while providing long-term state guarantees for profi ts to $1.18 trillion, more than doubling the cost. Moving as- private companies.” They also divert public money away sets off the government’s balance sheet by privatizing from the neediest infrastructure projects, which may not them looks attractive to politicians concerned with this deliver sizable returns, in favor of those big-ticket items year’s bottom line, but it’s a bad deal for the public. De- that will deliver hefty profi ts to investors. cades from now, people will still be paying higher tolls for the sake of Wall Street profi ts on an asset that could A Better Way to Design an Infrastructure Bank have belonged to them all along. The Trump team has also reportedly discussed the One example is the Dulles Greenway, possibility of an infrastructure bank, but a toll road outside Washington, D.C., nick- Decades from that proposal faces similar hurdles. The named the “Champagne Highway” due to “ details of the proposal are as yet unknown, its extraordinarily high rates and severe un- now, people will still but past conceptions of an infrastructure derutilization in a region crippled by chron- be paying higher bank envision a quasi-bank (not a physi- ic traffi c problems. Local (mostly Republi- tolls for the sake of cal, deposit-taking institution) seeded by can) offi cials have tried in vain for years the federal government, possibly from tax- to either force the private owners to lower Wall Street profi ts on es on the repatriation of offshore corporate the toll rates or have the state take the road an asset that could profi ts. The bank would issue bonds, tax credits, and loan guarantees to state and into public ownership. In 2014, the private have belonged to operators of the Indiana Toll Road, one of local governments to leverage private sec- the best-known public-private partnerships them all along. tor investment. As with the private equity (PPPs), fi led for bankruptcy after demand ” proposal, an infrastructure bank would dropped, due at least in part to rising toll rates. Other rely on public-private partnerships and investors who high-profi le PPP bankruptcies have occurred in San Di- would be disinclined to invest in projects that did not ego, CA; Richmond, VA; and Texas. generate hefty returns. And those returns would again be paid by the public in the form of tolls, fees, higher rates, Countering the dogma that “private companies can and payments from state and local governments. always do it better and cheaper,” studies have found that on average, private contractors charge more than twice as There is another way to set up a publicly-owned bank. much as the government would have paid federal workers Today’s infrastructure banks are basically revolving funds. for the same job. A 2011 report by the Brookings Institu- A dollar invested is a dollar lent, which must return to the tion found that “in practice [PPPs] have been dogged by bank (with interest) before it can be lent again. A chartered contract design problems, waste, and unrealistic expecta- depository bank, on the other hand, can turn a one-dollar tions.” In their 2015 report “Why Public-Private Partner- investment into ten dollars in loans. It can do this because ships Don’t Work,” Public Services International stated depository banks actually create deposits when they make that “[E]xperience over the last 15 years shows that PPPs (Continued on page 23)

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