Canadian Politics Today

"The main elements of the program included:

(a) a blended or 'made-in-Canada' price of oil, an average of the costs of imported and domestic oil, which will rise gradually and predictably but will remain well below world prices and will never be more than 85 per cent of the lower of the price of imported oil or of oil in the US, and which will be financed by a Petroleum Compensation Charge levied on refiners...;

(b) natural gas prices which will increase less quickly than oil prices, but which will include a new and rising federal tax on all natural gas and gas liquids;

(c) a petroleum and gas revenue tax of 8 per cent applied to net operating revenues before royalty and other expense deductions on all production of oil and natural gas in Canada...;

(d) the phasing out of the depletion allowances for oil and gas exploration and development, which will be replaced with a new system of direct incentive payments, structured to encourage investment by Canadian companies, with added incentives for exploration on Canada Lands (lands which the federal government held the mineral rights as opposed to private lands and lands which provinces held the mineral rights);

(e) a federal share of petroleum production income at the wellhead which will rise from about 10 per cent in recent years to 24 per cent over the 1980-83 period, with the share of the producing provinces falling from 45 to 43 per cent and that of the industry falling from 45 to 33 per cent over the same period;

(f) added incentives for energy conservation and energy conversion away from oil, particularly applicable to Eastern Canada, including the extension of the natural gas pipe-line system to Quebec City and the maritimes, with the additional transport charges being passed back to the producer; and

(g) a Canadian ownership levy to assist in financing the acquisition of the Canadian operations of one or more multinational oil companies, with the objective of achieving at least 50 per cent Canadian ownership of oil and gas production by 1990, Canadian control of a significant number of the major oil and gas corporations, and an early increase in the share of the oil and gas sector owned by the Government of Canada."[14]:6

now aren't you the lil' apologist for BigOil pressuring the... perpetual... artificially high(er) wholesale gas price level in Canada.

on a broad average retail level, Canadians pay ~ 35 cents a liter more in tax than representative like U.S. locales. GasBuddy says the price of gas in Sumas Washington (closet to your Mission reference) was ~ 0.89 cents a liter yesterday. As of Nov, 2017: Washington's state tax on gas is 49.4 U.S. cents per gallon... which gets added to the U.S. federal gas tax of 18.4 U.S. cents per gallon.

as for the current Metro Vancouver gas price: TransLink Tax (17 cents), Dedicated Motor Fuel Tax (6.75 cents), Provincial Motor Fuel Tax (1.75 cents), Carbon Tax (7.78 cents), Federal Excise Tax (10 cents) & the Goods and Services Tax (5 cents) => ~ 48 cents tax total ... (GasBuddy says the price of gas in Point Roberts was ~ 0.99 cents a liter yesterday)

I would prefer us to be owners of the west-east pipeline, and support our own market instead of the route to China.