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Originally Posted by Makarov
Hardly a foregone conclusion. Although Lougheed threatened to challenge the National Energy Program in the courts, he chose not to, and instead negotiated a (largely unsatisfactory) revised agreement. One might speculate that the advice he was receiving from Department of Justice lawyers was that the NEP would likely survive constitutional scrutiny.
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He didn't challenge in court because he didn't trust the courts at the time, and because it was faster for him to announce that he was shutting down I think a quarter of the Alberta oil production which would have caused domestic oil prices to shoot through the roof thus forcing Trudeau to the table.
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