Alberta is rich with oil, but what has it got to show for it?

[blackice]

Stupid you have been crowned You have no idea why the nep was put in place. You still obviously believe the alberta government propaganda it was there to hurt albertains. Now you claim it is common knowledge to post what I did which is way different then your typical whinning. You win the crown buddy

Back to way over your head again...

Nice Google search it will take more than that to catch up asher

[Asher]

Oh my God, you HAVE to be a DL!

[blackice]

Rather a dl then dull

[Asher]

No, you're a dull DL.

[blackice]

asher: How did the NEP create the Oil Sands when Great Canadian Oil Sands Ltd (now Suncor) began production of tar sands north of Fort McMurray in 1967?

Who helped fund it asher you? alberta? canada? ontarians? scotians? we all did dummy now klein says thanks see ya....

[Asher]

You do know that the NEP was put in place in 1980, and 1967 is EARLIER than 1980?

[blackice]

you always resort to stupidity when you get caught being ignorant be nice to know everythibg asher but you don't period just admit like a freeman when you are wrong is all. A smart man says "I did not know that teach me"

[Asher]

I wonder if you're the same guy that maintains the Wiggy and Gian DLs?

[blackice]

Pierre Trudeau was first elected Canada's prime minister in 1968.


Ottawa adopted other policies to promote a stronger and more independent Canada as, ironically, the anti-nationalist Trudeau oversaw the growth of Canadian economic nationalism. In 1971, the Canada Development Corporation, which invested heavily in companies operating in Canada, was established, fulfilling former Finance Minister Walter Gordon's dream of a finding a way of "buying Canada back." Growing economic nationalism, Nixon’s declaration and the government's dependence on the New Democrats led to the introduction of the Foreign Investment Review Agency (FIRA), reflecting the recommendations in a report sponsored by Herb Gray, one of the more nationalist members of Cabinet. FIRA would decide whether foreign acquisitions were in the national interest. Although the delays it produced, and indeed its very existence, angered the Americans, in reality it turned down very few acquisitions.

A secure energy supply was a major concern to the United States, which was dependent on foreign supplies, and Canada's increasingly nationalistic energy policies perturbed the Americans. Canada had become an even more important source of secure energy to the United States following the Arab-Israeli war of 1973 and the subsequent oil embargo imposed by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

But the Canadian government had its own concerns about energy self- sufficiency and briefly considered imposing its own embargo on oil exports to the United States. In the end the government did not go that far, but it did impose a tax increase on such exports, over American objections. It also created a large nationally owned oil company, Petro-Canada, to give the government an important presence in the critical petroleum industry. By then, however, the Nixon administration was too deeply embroiled in the Watergate scandal and its own internal crisis to react as strongly as it might have to these developments.


Culture Wars Economic nationalism spilled over into culture, always a sensitive area for Canadians. American cultural exports (second only to agriculture in value for the United States) continued to dominate popular culture in Canada. What Canadians saw as cultural issues, Americans viewed as strictly economic or trade issues, wanting to treat trade in cultural products no differently than trade in any other commodity.

In 1975, the government finally took decisive action against Time and Reader's Digest: they could either adopt a policy of 75 percent Canadian content, or lose their favourable tax exemption on advertising. Reader's Digest chose to Canadianize but Time did not.

In the field of broadcasting, the Canadian Radio-Television Commission was created in 1968 and a set of rules to promote Canadian content was established. Radio had to play 30 percent Canadian music, television had to provide 60 percent (50 percent in prime time) Canadian programming. As well, cable networks, which retransmitted the signals of American stations without compensation, were forced to replace the American broadcast of a program with the corresponding Canadian rebroadcast, complete with Canadian commercials. This policy particularly angered the Americans. The government also sought to promote Canadian movies through the Canadian Film Development Corporation (now Telefilm). How effective these policies were remains a matter of opinion, and of controversy.

What you know and spew about Trudeau is limited ignorance period.

[Asher]

Okay, now you're just spamming the thread.

Where are the mods when you need them?

[blackice]

CANADA BABY YA Not whinny meism.....

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Asher
No, that's not correct.
In 1930 the Federal Government of Canada transferred all Mineral Rights to the Provincial Governments of the Western provinces.

The fact that provincial government have jurisdiction over mineral rights does not change the fact that the oil is on Canadian territory.

[blackice]

To you knowledge is spamming...yet you spam every thread I do with stupid uninformed non-coherant diatribe. Welcome to O.T.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Tingkai
The fact that provincial government have jurisdiction over mineral rights does not change the fact that the oil is on Canadian territory.

By that logic the Canadian government owns my wristwatch as well?

Alberta has all rights to its oil, legally. Whether it's in Canada or not is irrelevant.

[blackice]

Tingkai only by force as the agreement in writting allows Alberta the rights to resources, and to say "let them freeze in the dark"
Yep with a neighbor like that, friend, family....