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Tingkai
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To find the Northwest Passage
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Those are interesting stats Blackice.
Another point is Canadians should be paying more at the pump for gas. That would discourage people from buying gas guzzling vehicles that use up a non-renewable resource and that are environmentally unfriendly.
I'm not saying the price of gas should be jacked up overnight, but a steady increase in gas prices, at a rate that doesn't harm the economy, would be beneficial in the long run.
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blackice
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Canada where else...
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1974: Syncrude became a joint public-private venture, sponsored by Esso Resources, Gulf Canada, Canada Cities Service, Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas, and the Alberta and Canadian governments. Construction of the Syncrude plant at a site near the Suncor (G.C.O.S.) plant north of Fort McMurray took 4 years to complete. Canadian Bechtel Co., handled most of the construction. The plant was initially licensed to produce 125,000 barrels of oil per day.
In general, relations with the United States during Trudeau's last term remained difficult. The Americans were furious when Canada introduced the National Energy Policy (NEP) in 1980, which sought to establish 50 percent Canadian ownership of the oil industry by 1990. Ideologically, the pro-free enterprise Republican administration did not like direct government involvement in the economy. More importantly, the NEP discriminated in favour of Canadian companies.
Washington feared that restrictions on U.S. ownership in the energy sector would threaten America's energy security, a subject on which the Americans were extremely touchy. To the Americans, Canada was acting like a troublesome and unreliable Third World country. Although the Canadian government backtracked slightly under a barrage of American criticism, the essential elements of the NEP remained in place.
Just a tid bit of what they do not teach you out there...why you tell me...
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blackice
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Canada where else...
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Pierre Trudeau was first elected Canada's prime minister in 1968.
Ottawa adopted other policies to promote a stronger and more independent Canada as, ironically, the anti-nationalist Trudeau oversaw the growth of Canadian economic nationalism. In 1971, the Canada Development Corporation, which invested heavily in companies operating in Canada, was established, fulfilling former Finance Minister Walter Gordon's dream of a finding a way of "buying Canada back." Growing economic nationalism, Nixon’s declaration and the government's dependence on the New Democrats led to the introduction of the Foreign Investment Review Agency (FIRA), reflecting the recommendations in a report sponsored by Herb Gray, one of the more nationalist members of Cabinet. FIRA would decide whether foreign acquisitions were in the national interest. Although the delays it produced, and indeed its very existence, angered the Americans, in reality it turned down very few acquisitions.
A secure energy supply was a major concern to the United States, which was dependent on foreign supplies, and Canada's increasingly nationalistic energy policies perturbed the Americans. Canada had become an even more important source of secure energy to the United States following the Arab-Israeli war of 1973 and the subsequent oil embargo imposed by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
But the Canadian government had its own concerns about energy self- sufficiency and briefly considered imposing its own embargo on oil exports to the United States. In the end the government did not go that far, but it did impose a tax increase on such exports, over American objections. It also created a large nationally owned oil company, Petro-Canada, to give the government an important presence in the critical petroleum industry. By then, however, the Nixon administration was too deeply embroiled in the Watergate scandal and its own internal crisis to react as strongly as it might have to these developments.
Culture Wars Economic nationalism spilled over into culture, always a sensitive area for Canadians. American cultural exports (second only to agriculture in value for the United States) continued to dominate popular culture in Canada. What Canadians saw as cultural issues, Americans viewed as strictly economic or trade issues, wanting to treat trade in cultural products no differently than trade in any other commodity.
In 1975, the government finally took decisive action against Time and Reader's Digest: they could either adopt a policy of 75 percent Canadian content, or lose their favourable tax exemption on advertising. Reader's Digest chose to Canadianize but Time did not.
In the field of broadcasting, the Canadian Radio-Television Commission was created in 1968 and a set of rules to promote Canadian content was established. Radio had to play 30 percent Canadian music, television had to provide 60 percent (50 percent in prime time) Canadian programming. As well, cable networks, which retransmitted the signals of American stations without compensation, were forced to replace the American broadcast of a program with the corresponding Canadian rebroadcast, complete with Canadian commercials. This policy particularly angered the Americans. The government also sought to promote Canadian movies through the Canadian Film Development Corporation (now Telefilm). How effective these policies were remains a matter of opinion, and of controversy.
What you know and spew about Trudeau is limited ignorance period.
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Tingkai
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To find the Northwest Passage
Aug 2001
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quote:
Originally posted by Asher
No, that's not correct.
In 1930 the Federal Government of Canada transferred all Mineral Rights to the Provincial Governments of the Western provinces.
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The fact that provincial government have jurisdiction over mineral rights does not change the fact that the oil is on Canadian territory.
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