c'mon, for western whining & alienation sake, as is your typical way (earlier), you made all these bullshyte statements about the NEP...
The primary source of bullshyte here is you and your utterly false claims.
predicated upon your big-time failure in confusing gas versus oil pipelines! How does one take you serious after that bonehead play... that you still haven't acknowledged!
I mistook the 1953 pipeline with the 1957 pipeline? Ok. I can acknowledge that itty-bitty error. Will you acknowledge the king-sized error you've made in this thread?
Try to recover - start by providing the cite I asked you for earlier...
I'll provide a cite for that when you provide a cite for your claim that the NEP's ambitious goals would be paid for by Petro Canada profits.
You want a cite? National Energy Policy, Marc Lalonde, 1980.
Tell you what you do:
1) use your googly prowess to find the document in the government archives.
2) download the document.
3) read the fuckin' document.
4) if you can't find the punitive measures I referred to for yourself, give me a shout and I will help you out.
for good measure add another to cover this latest reply's worth of... revisionism you're spinning, hey!
I have the NEP right in front of me. I've been perusing it this weekend. The only talk of new pipelines in this document is in regard to expanding pipelines in Canada is in regard to extending the natural gas pipeline to the Maritimes, and building a natural gas pipeline to Vancouver Island.
There was no intention of expanding oil pipeline capacity.
That's because the NEP was designed with the belief that Western Canadian production of conventional oil would drop within the near future, and that synthetic crude production from the oil sands would not be sufficient to replace the lost production of conventional oil.
This is explicitly stated in the NEP itself.
There was no intention of increasing oil pipeline capacity, because their projections indicated that Western Canada oil production would FALL, not RISE.Talk of promoting Canadian energy self-sufficiency is primarily in reference to transitioning away from oil to natural gas and other energy sources. There was no talk at all of expanding Canadian oil exports-- indeed it was hoped that Canadian oil exports would be reduced or eliminated.
And most germane to this discussion, there was no talk of increasing oil pipeline capacity out of Western Canada, because it was anticipated that Western Canadian oil production would decline.
Your claim that the NEP had any provisions that would address the current pipelines dilemma is utterly false.
Your claim that if the NEP had just been allowed to continue, all the necessary infrastructure that's needed today could have been built back then is utterly false.
The ideas you have been peddling in regard to the NEP having had the answers to these issues are fantasy, wishful thinking, and total revisionism.
You'd have been about as accurate if you'd claimed that the NEP contained the keys to unlocking nuclear fission and perpetual motion, or that we'd all be driving hovercars if the NEP had just been allowed to continue. The claims you've made here are total make-believe.
So before you get to crowing and patting yourself on the back for catching my error in regard to the 1953 pipeline vs the 1957 pipeline, spend a moment to consider what a colossal ass you've made of yourself by having your claims regarding the NEP contradicted by the stuff that's actually written in the document you've been breathlessly promoting.
-k