Foreign Interest
At its recent peak in 1973, more than 78 per cent of Canadian oil and gas production was under foreign ownership and more than 90 per cent of oil and gas production companies were under foreign control, mostly American. It spurred the National Energy Program under the Trudeau government.
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Famous quotes containing the words foreign and/or interest:
“Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.”
—F.H. (Francis Herbert)