BY BRIAN GEISBRECHT
Recon$iliation Nation
F
orty years ago, Liberal organizer Keith Davey coined the phrase, "Screw the West, we’ll take the rest.” The infamous quote from during the 1980 election
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brought forth Albertans’ retort, “Let the eastern bastards freeze in the dark,” which was plastered on bumper stickers across the province. Pierre Trudeau and his notorious National Energy Program (NEP) caused much damage to both Alberta’s and Saskatchewan’s economies — so
much so that senior Trudeau seriously aggravated the long-standing suspicion in the West that the Liberal Party was more vampire than friend. Pierre’s son, Justin, now Canada’s minority government prime minister, is doing it once again with Bill C-69. The legislation replaces the National
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Ottawa’s Aboriginal agenda is a stealth assault on your property rights.
