Werner, AGRDT and myself seem to be blogging something called Alberta envy lately, so here’s a flashback to 2005:
Calgary Herald, 2005: Alberta envy grows as wealth gap widens
Prime Minister Paul Martin has repeatedly said he would not consider grabbing a piece of Alberta’s profits through any policy resembling the NEP — a point emphasized Monday by Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan.
“When one part of the country does well, you shouldn’t say in some other part of the country, ‘Why can’t that be us and how do we plot to get a bigger share of that?’ ” said McLellan in Calgary on Monday.
“I am a firm believer that the politics of jealousy and envy and greed have no place in this country, and when a province like Alberta does well, the entire country does well, and one sees that every day in the direct and indirect benefits that flow.”
Of course, now she’s on the board of Nexen.
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Werner Patels 07.21.08 at 2:38 pm
Your blog is up (was it down before when you left a comment on my blog?).
Yeah, I’d trust both Martin and Anne more than Dion, because contrary to his own repeated protestations, he is one of the most dishonest and most hypocritical in the Liberal bunch I have seen in a long time.