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Originally Posted by Devil's Rule
True, but never the less it affected me in a huge way, and therefore I cannot ignore it.
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Which, of course, is a completely reasonable argument.
On the NEP thing, the "get over it" angle might work if the Liberals of today were shown to not be the Liberals of 30 years ago. In a lot of ways they are not, but when it comes to shifting money from west to east, nothing really has changed. The exemptions they proposed for Kyoto and the Green Shift, as two examples, showed that Liberal policy remains one of "screw Alberta to benefit Ontario". Someone, I forget who, replied to me noting that the Tories also have a cap and trade proposal in their platform. But, as already mentioned, I don't expect the Conservative plan will be nearly as unequal as I expect the Liberal plan will be.
In short, our position in the Liberal Canada has long been that of the woman with the deadbeat husband who sits on his ass all day taking our money and goodwill and offering nothing but insults and abuse in return if we talk back.
That is why I mentioned having the Libs go to the oil patch and push their policies directly first. If the big companies come out and say "well, this will hurt us a bit, but it appears to be proposed fairly and offers x, y and z benefit overall", then you won't see the NEP2 allegations that followed the Green Shift proposal.