The entire basis for separation has been wrong from get go.
@PardyBruce's stated repeatedly that exiting Cda for financial reasons wont succeed. If ABs not exiting Cda b/c Cdns aren't free, then there's no point in leaving for policy changes. Exiting means "embrace the unknown".
Agree.
Which is why we did not copy anyone's model, neither for the fiscal plan nor the constitutional draft (I am the editor).
Our assumption was maintaining the current royalty structure along with the current excise taxes, albeit with the federal portion of those taxes being remitted to Alberta.
Likewise other forms of taxation we included in VoF, we just left them as they are today and added up the revenue they'd bring.
In my opinion, I would think we'd get rid of all the excise tax/carbon tax kind of approaches and go to a simplified royalty that included the revenue raised by excise, if for no other reason than to just keep things simple.
One point you raise I want to emphasize and that is Alberta cannot copy anybody.
We need made-in-Alberta solutions that fit our situation.