if the nep had been a failure, it wouldn't be as reviled as it is in alberta.

the only failure that i see is justin trudeau.

i don't exactly want to bring back the nep. climate change was not a pressing problem in the early 1980s, and one would hope that the elder trudeau would react to the evidence differently today, given his insistence on "reason over passion". i don't know if he publicly commented on climate change in his time out of office.

but, bringing back the basic idea of the nep - which was to utilize the country's national resources for the benefit of the national interest, rather than the benefit of foreign interests, and in particular foreign capital, which is the status quo - would certainly be a step in the right direction.

we are unlikely to make serious steps towards transition so long as the industry is in the hands of the private sector.

the closest thing to a political voice that we have in canada today, towards that direction, is naomi klein - who heads a faction of the ndp that has been completely ignored by the party's politburo.

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/03/13/Kinder-Morgan-Make-Trudeau-One-Term-PM/