... (especially those in the oil-rich Western provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan) opposed the highly nationalistic National Energy Program, which aimed to encourage domestic ownership of businesses in the energy field with tax benefits and incentives, effectively shutting out many foreign investors in the Canadian oil industry and setting a price for Canadian oil below that on the world market. By 1983 ... in December 1999, Trudeau was chosen Canada's newsmaker of the century. He was also generally known as one of Canada's most enduringly popular public figures, second only to the great ...

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