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Originally Posted by calgarychef
I imagine if Ottawa wasn’t busy cleaning out our wallets we would be like Norway. They don’t have that problem.
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Was Ottawa cleaning out our pockets or was the Conservative government of Alberta giving royalty money to their rich friends ? Norway doesn't have the problem because the Norwegian government kept the citizens share of resource revenue for its people. Why doesn't Alberta have a royalty fund like Norway ? Because the Conservative government gave the resource owner's money, the citizens of Alberta money, to their rich friends !
This fact is addressed by the statement made by Marc Lalonde. "The goal was not to kill the goose. The hope was to get what we considered as our fair share of the goose...".It was recognized that the Conservative government was giving the resource away so the NEP was implemented to recover the loss.