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...years Canada's Western provinces could do little more than complain about the Eastern Establishment, including the federal government in Ottawa. The West was helplessly beholden to Eastern tariffs, Eastern financial institutions and a Parliament dominated by Ontario and Quebec. Then, the West struck oil. All of a sudden, it found itself awash in energy, profits and power. This inevitably led to an East-West struggle. Last week it erupted into an outright tax revolt as the West balked at new federal excise levies on all natural gas sales...
Under the new taxation rules, Ottawa's share of energy revenues would increase from 10% to 24%, ultimately enriching federal coffers by $21.5 billion over the next three years. According to the Trudeau government, the tax was needed mainly to offset the power of foreign multinationals, which control nearly three-quarters of Canada's present oil and gas revenues. The Prime Minister's goal is 50% Canadian ownership...
Edna and John Catley Ottawa...
...seems that in 1967 Edwards' now defunct Ottawa-based printing company had produced a magazine for the Soviet Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal, but the Soviets refused to pay the final $26,000 invoice for the printing order. When Edwards approached the Canadian Department of External Affairs for some needed muscle, he was informed that he would have little luck in collecting the debt. "They told me," says Edwards, "the Russians had immunity." Undeterred, Edwards considered trying to impound the ice skates of the visiting Soviet hockey team. In 1973 he persuaded a local court to order...
...Surnin that he was seizing his ship until the bill was paid. Pravda, the Soviet Communist Party newspaper, yowled that the boarding had been carried out by "police thugs acting like medieval pirates." But when Edwards also took actions to freeze the bank accounts of the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, Moscow warmed to the possibility of a settlement of the original bill plus interest, court costs and pier charges. While he was at it, Edwards also demanded, and duly received, a case of vodka and a pound of caviar for a celebration party. "Mr. Edwards," said one of his lawyers...