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Originally Posted by jayswin
I agree with you in principle, I only take issue with the bolded. It may just be semantics on my part, but the NEP destroyed a lot of lives here, and caused a lot of terrible years.
I guess you're right in that we did rebound well eventually on a civic level, butwasn't just feel your wording was slightly dismissive of how devastating that program was on a person to person to basis. It caused anything from financial hardship right up to suicide in many cases.
Basically I agree that it was a long time ago and shouldn't be held against any current politicians/parties, but I don't really like that you tried to make it sound like it wasn't a disastrous program for our province.
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I guess that's fair. I wasn't trying to be dismissive of the danage it caused, it's just the way some people talk, that they don't get stuff like that happens to people all the time. Like they were the only ones wronged, or other jobs have it so much easier.
Yes it was a very bad policy for our province. I hesitate to call it disasterous, cause it really wasn't. One only has to look at the province and state of O&G here to see it was far from 'disasterous'. It hurt some hard working people and businesses, sure. It was unfair. Of course. It wasn't good policy and it wasn't worth it on either side of the provincial border.
But holy smokes, a lot of these people are the same people who bitch about social programs or that other people might not be pulling their weight. And they don't realize how truly good they've had it. How blessed and lucky they've been. They get one real thing to be mad about in 40 years and it's the end of the world. Situations like that, whether political or not happen in all other industries and jobs, often far more often or worse. O&G has nothing to complain about in my books and anyone who is still complaining about the NEP is completely out of touch.