Bill Doyle of Potash Corp says that the people of Saskatchewan get a fair share of Potash royalties. So, what is the “fair” share accruing to the feat of being born within an arbitrary rectangle on a map? What is a fair premium to pay for the same resources if you weren’t born there?
Incidentally, resource wealth is one of the only “goods” that doesn’t correlate with GDP.
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