Well, yes, I agree with you guys, with a bit less emphasis on how downhill we might be going but Calgary?
Man, what a sterile and glib wasteland that place is! No offence to anyone from there but I found it to be a very.......odd city with a ghost town of a central district (and that at 11pm) and almost NO character. Just cause they have LRT doesn't make them great. So, they got one thing right.....cookies for them then?
See, if Van City or Montreal were to take over our power and influence, I'd be more hesitant to disbelieve their ability to do so in a more complete way...but Calgary? Never!
Besides, oil is over and that's what they're built on. We have an increasingly powerful financial sector going for us. Finances are nowhere near being on the way out; oil, not so much.
In fact, if I may, I'd like to predict that Calgary's power and influence will peak (if it hasn't already) by 2015 and then steadily drop as we start tripping over peak oil.