In my last post I discussed how it was the Progressive Conservatives, backed the business and financial elite who were the ones that fucked over Canada and Ontario in the early to mid-90s – not Bob Rae and his idealistic, progressive NDP, contrary to popular zombie-like belief.
There’s another enduring mythology, also promoting by business interests, about the Trudeau Liberal’s* National Energy Program, or NEP for short. Basically, Alberta (particularly conservatives and businesses) shout that the NEP devastated the Alberta economy in the early 1980s. It’s treated with absolute contempt in much of Alberta politics. For example,