Posted Oct 22, 2014, 8:51 PM
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Yeah, there are big economies of having everything in the same place. Even with entirely new (to Alberta) companies that have tried to set up in Edmonton at first they end up moving to Calgary. Not being able to easily have engineering, constructors, customer, environmental planners, etc makes things harder.
Making an entirely new cluster is hard. Most of these companies, unless they are headquartered in a tax jurisdiction with lower taxes than Canada, Canadian taxes are incidental. They write off 100% of Canadian tax on their USA/France/whereever taxes.
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