Canadian Politics Today

Such as?

I've previously stated the principal gains the NEP brought forward in its short existence

The NEP was a dud because ...

In fact the reason the NEP flopped had little to do with Lougheed, nothing to do with Joe Clark, and a whole lot to do with bad assumptions.

That very national infrastructure people are beaking off about would be getting built right now if Mr Horgan weren't attempting to waylay the project.

not a dud... didn't flop. If your sole determination on the rationale for NEP was the relative world oil price... but then again, you seem to have no problem with the earlier Eastern subsidization of Alberta's oil industry while whining about a shift to offset higher Eastern costs - go figure! Of course, prices rise and fall... it would be foolhardy to work to isolate Canada from that fluctuating price impact!  As an aside, see self-determination and self-sufficiency... see Canadian ownership... why, gdamnit... see Canadian sovereignty and control of our own resources!

notwithstanding your complete failure in confusing oil and gas pipelines, that national strategy plan (some 35 year ago) was tailored for and positioned to work towards Canadian self-sufficiency and control; i.e. see national infrastructure opportunities well in advance of the current lobby interests (Mr. Horgan among those). Why... you wouldn't have Harper Conservatives pissing away a decade in doing absolutely nothing to promote pipelines - meaning lil' Jason Kenney wouldn't need to feign ignorance of his own participation in that Harper Conservative doNothingNess!