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CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: KINES FROM PARC, TORONTO

1983-0360

Video

1969-10-02

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

producer, Jeannine Locke; executive producer, William Harcourt; Robert Patchell; editing, Ron Garant; narration, Allan McFee

An examination of the economic and social changes in Western Canada since the discovery of oil reserves in Alberta in 1947. Topics explored include: foreign capital investment; the poor promotion and development of the oil industry; the plight of the small Western farmer; Western separatism; and the lack of cooperation between Eastern and Western Canada. Includes interviews with: Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau; Manitoba Premier Edward Schreyer; Saskatchewan Premier Ross Thatcher; Gordon Shrum, Chairman of B.C. Hydro; Hu Harries, Liberal MP for Edmonton-Strathcona; Milt Harrandence, a Calgary lawyer and former leader of the Conservative Party of Alberta; Roy Atkinson, head of the National Farmer's Union; Henry Bohrson, a wheat farmer from Hanley, Sask.; Prof. Donald Smiley, political scientist at University of B.C.; and Merrill Menzies, Winnipeg economist.

ALBERTA~CANADA~ECONOMIC CONDITIONS~FARMERS~INTERNATIONAL TRADE~NATURAL RESOURCES~OIL FIELDS~PETROLEUM INDUSTRY~PETROLEUM RESERVES~REGIONALISM~UNITED STATES~WESTERN CANADA ~ATKINSON, ROY~HARRIES, HU~SCHREYER, EDWARD~SMILEY, DONALD~THATCHER, ROSS~TRUDEAU, PIERRE ELLIOTT

English

Open

V1 8401-0043

GAD 0FD547

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

With written permission of Donor / Avec la permission écrite du donateur