Chris Nelson writes on how it is time the province of Alberta stopped jawboning and instead acted in its ongoing conflict with the feds.
You have to go back to Peter Lougheed to discover a provincial leader who didn’t just talk tough when the feds stepped onto our front porch but actually fought back with actions that mattered.It was the fall of 1980, and the Pierre Trudeau government attempted what would have been the biggest revenue heist by Ottawa upon a Canadian province in history — the infamous National Energy Program, which would force a much lower, made-in-Canada oil price upon Alberta crude.
Two days after the legislation was tabled in Ottawa, Lougheed took to the provincial airways and announced, “We’ve decided to recommend to the legislature that we should reduce the rate in which we’re producing our oil to about 85 per cent of its capacity.” And that’s what this province did; forcing the rest of the country to start paying about $40 for expensive imported oil because they couldn’t get enough Canadian crude at what was a ludicrously discounted price of $17 a barrel.
It got folks’ attention in a hurry and forced the Grits back to the negotiating table, resulting in an eventual agreement that more or less helped keep them at bay for almost four decades.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
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