Redford has a national energy plan – but don’t call it the NEP
Alberta Premier Alison Redford is championing some kind of national energy plan and even though she hasn’t exactly spelled out what it means, she is quick to correct the vernacular.
It’s a “Canadian Energy Strategy,” not a National Energy Program. That Trudeau-era hangover still gives Albertans a headache. Advocating for a new nationwide strategy has become such a defining feature of the Redford government, that it is already known in government shorthand as CES, not NEP.
But Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a radio talk show last week that he wasn’t sure what such a strategy would involve, but jokingly said he “always gets nervous” when the words “national” and “energy” are placed together.
“The honest truth is I don’t know precisely what it means,” he said.
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