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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
It saddens me that more people didn't listen to Lougheed in his autumn years. He represented a more rational, far-sighted, nuanced approach to Conservatism than the populists and ideologues who took over the party in his wake.
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I don't know. I get Lougheed was good at standing up to the Trudeau about our revenue independence, but a lot of his diversification ideas were very poor. Did it really make sense for the province to own its own airline? I would suggest that we're probably better off having Westjet HQ in Calgary than we ever were when Pacific Western Air HQ was here, and it doesn't cost us any public money. There were lots of other public money boondoggles in that time period as well (NovaTel, Swan Hills, Gainers, Millar Western Pulp, Magnesium Company of Canada, Al-Pac, etc) Basically the only public investments that did well were ones that didn't diversify the province at all. (Syncrude and AEC)