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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
If I remember even members of the Liberal cabinet approached Trudeau and I believe Marc Lalonde and begged them not to implement the NEP program because it would create a real split in Canada. I also remember that Alberta warned the Feds several times that if they implemented the NEP that Alberta would simply shut off the taps to the rest of the country.
The NEP was an outright bad idea by a vindictive Prime Minister who didn't really like the West and was frustrated that Alberta and Peter Lougheed would not come to heel with his vision of a centralized country.
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Capn, I'm afraid that some of this is just wrong. Peter Lougheed was originally all for the NEP. If I ever win a powerball lottery I want to buy a piece of prime real-estate to create a huge bronze statue of Lougheed and Trudeau clinking their champagne glasses to toast the deal!
IIRC the "let those eastern bums and creeps freeze in the dark" mentality didn't come till a few years later.
I'm certainly not going to sit here and try to defend the NEP as a good policy...but the Green Shift is not anywhere near that plan.