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OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper is puzzled by the Alberta premier's ideas on oil and gas, calling it a "national energy strategy."
"In recent years, particularly after the disaster of the National Energy Program -- and that's why we always get nervous when we hear 'national energy' in the same sentence -- we went essentially to a market-based energy system in this country," Harper told Calgary talk radio host Dave Rutherford. "What is meant by the term 'national energy strategy' is kind of vague in my mind."
After winning Alberta's PC Party leadership, Alison Redford announced her vision for a Canadian Energy Strategy and was supported by the Liberal and Saskatchewan Party premiers of B.C. and Saskatchewan, Christy Clark and Brad Wall, respectively.
Harper, instead, chose the title "national energy" -- a dirty term in resource-rich Western Canada.
Former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau introduced the National Energy Program as a resource wealth-sharing plan. The NEP was hated by many in Western Canada, particularly in Alberta, as it siphoned off oil-industry profits.
Harper added that he was looking forward to discussing the issue with the premiers to "find out what they had in mind."
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Source: http://www.torontosun.com/2012/01/06/harper-questions-premiers-oil-and-gas-plan
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