Marc Lalonde, energy minister of the 1980’s, admitted the NEP was done to punish Alberta. In my books, Albertans should never have forgiven the federal government and remained permanently hostile to the country. The NEP cost Alberta $67 billion dollars.
I know I am.
FWIW, Jonty30, I am originally from d’Ottawa, having moved to Alberta in the early 90s. Until two years ago, I had never belonged to a political party, though I always voted Conservative, then Reform, then Alliance.
The parties I joined were WIPA and federally, Maverick Party. I am now a supporter of Alberta independence, independent from the Laurentianist ‘colonizers’.
I am familiar with Marc Lalonde, having seen him and Rocky Waterhole (Pierre Trudeau) on a ski hill at Camp Fortune, near d’Ottawa. Lalonde looked even more like a ‘fruit’ in person, than on TV. There were plenty of rumors going round that he and Rocky were ‘intimate’ friends.
The ‘colonies’ of Alberta and Saskatchewan need to GTHO of Canaduh!