The former reply was for Oakville.

George O. a lot of the same applies to your comment.  You think Trudeau knew which way the economic winds were blowing when the new entity OPEC was throwing everything into chaos?  Trudeau wanted a publicly funded company, Petro Can to supply Canadians. And then perhaps he played some stupid politics around that.

I've lived in Alberta a long time and have never felt the need to buy into the gigantic boulder of pity so many Albertan's carry about on their shoulders on this topic.

The NEP wouldn't be such a nation ripper if every Alberta politician after Lougheed hadn't made it so.  Even poor drunken Klein who was so popular he surely didn't need to do it - fed the NEP terror.  As did Harper.  As Wall and others are doing now.

Frankly, the facts don't live up to the hype.  And it sure ain't worth killing Canada over.