East Coast Driftwood
2012-01-28 19:15:17
The phrase was more like “Let the Eastern (Canadian) bastards freeze in the dark” and was in response to the 1980 National Energy Program, a disaster wrought by someone Flaming Liberal would have adored I’m sure – the Rt. Hon. Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada. Talk about a social program gone wrong but liberals love that kind of stuff regardless if it works or not.
Ralph Klein was mayor of Calgary at the time.
As for the precise number of jobs I think the more important issue is the ripple effect building and maintaining the pipeline will create now and in the future.
