Peter Lougheed

I always thought of Peter Lougheed as a good & honourable man, an excellent representative of Alberta. Rest in Peace indeed.

Peter Lougheed exemplified what a politician should be. Be strong to your principles but never be afraid to fight for what's right for the situation. He carried himself with class and dignity throughout his whole life and never backed down from a challenge. Alberta and indeed all of Canada is better off for having him serve. If there were more politicians like him around the world would be a much better place.

Peter was OK. Some of his cabinet were thieves but Lougheed was a level above them.

When Mr. Lougheed arrives in "the other dimension," he most likey will see Trudeau waiting for him at the gate, wearing a smile, a Petro Canada jacket and a Pan Canadian hard hat!

I don't know about that,Plainzdrifter, Trudeau took the "Down" elevator when he left.

RIP.

I sincerely hope Peter Lougheed has found his peace. I always held him to be one of the worst premiers in Alberta's history and shall remain in my memory as the man who clinked glasses with PET mere days before PET's NEP drove Alberta into the most severe depression since 1929. I remember how he distorted the price of farmland with his 1/4 million dollar loans to any budding farmer who could fill out the forms. I remember the resentment my father in law had when a similar 1/4 million dollar loan set up a company to compete with him courtesy of Peter Lougheed. Peter Lougheed: Progressive to the core.

Lets not revise history just because he is dead.

Lougheed was a crooked Red Tory and his crooked PC Ministers followed his lead. Lougheed set the tone for the conduct of the 40 some odd years of PC government that have followed

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@Joe

So competition is bad?

Your dad should have started inovating, and undercutting the govonrment sponsored buisness andn ot only that he should have taken out an add in every papaer in alberta stating that company X was being paid for by albertans tax dollars !!!

i never knew him or of him i am origionally from manitoba and i was 7 when he left office .

wish him peace .

Paul: No one ever said competition was bad. What was and is bad is the government favoring one company over the other. Had the government simply given every business 1/4 million it would have been a level playing field. For the government to give one start up company the money but not any of the others????? Especially considering there were already lots of other companies in the field that had earned their place through hard work and wise investment. BTW the father in law's company is still in operation. He sold the company when he retired in 1992.

Albertans have the highest per capita spending by government for all of Canada. Mr. Lougheed helped to lay the groundwork for that eventuality.

Joe, the 1/4 million for the competitor's company came from your father in law's taxes. He built that company.

@ Joe;
Peter the rebel lost me not only for colaborating with Turdea on the NEP but also his willingness to sign off on Meech Lake. When it came to stand up to easterners he was a big fail.

When he had the opportunity to rectify these past betrayals he condemned Preston Mannings attempts to correct the political setup in the country and actively worked against him.

I left Saskatchewan in 79 at 18 yrs. old because of socialism. Had a couple of really good years in Alberta and then 1982 kicked in. The next two years were hell. Rest in peace Peter but you should have stood up to Trudeau and told that commie where to stick that boney middle finger of his.

The family said in a statement that it will celebrate Lougheed's life in a private service. Plans for a public memorial will be announced in coming days.

No need to build any more memorials to Peter Lougheed now, the Progressives built memorials to him while he was still alive.
Peter Lougheed hospital in Calgary N.E. and Peter Lougheed park in the Kananaskis to name but two.

When WK says he was a great Canadian and the Toronto Star have it on the front page, I don't think there's anything else I need to know.

Phew! Needed some common sense after all I've been reading and hearing today. Today's not the day to criticise, and I'm choosing to remember the few things he did well.

Lougheed was a Tory, just one of the reddest there was. He and Paul Martin could've been separated at birth.

Lougheed was a reckless profligate spender. A true progressive and the progenitor of the of the
present AB government.

He thought he could pick business winners but his record proved otherwise. Magnesium plants, airlines, ag business (remember all those alfalfa
plants). Everyone a failure that required massive tax dollar bailouts. The list is long and embarrassing.

Alberta suffers to this day from the tone his government set. Successive Progress Conservative governments have spent 350 billion in resource revenues since 1971 and the province is in deficit on its way to debt.

Thanks pete.

Lougheed is a hero with older generations in Alberta but the newer gens see him as a failed conservative who spent like a liberal and loved the eastern power elite - and he did not do all he could to bring the west's plea for property rights and confederal equity with the east into the charter drafting debates.

He capitulated to Trudeau. Thats all you need to know.

RIP. As the Immortal Bard said, 'the evil men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones...', so let it be with Peter.

He made the Heritage Trust Fund, which was a great idea. Too bad it has been abused so badly and is currently hardly worth anything, but that's not his fault.

"He made the Heritage Trust Fund, which was a great idea."

I hope you don't mind if I sincerely disagree with your opinion. The Heritage Trust Fund has always been a political football that serves only the government. Years ago I went to a family function held in a community hall. On the wall was a plaque letting everyone know that this hall was built using Heritage Trust Fund money. Just this week the provincial government once again dragged out the 'gee what should we do with 'the fund' again. The Fund certainly gives great cover for people killed on 63 and AHS people receiving huge payouts for being fired. Etc etc etc.

If people only knew the real story. Look up Dial mortgage. Look up the story of Petro Canada. He sold Alberta down the river. Just another carpet bagger Easterner, come West to make his fortune. Covered up scandals for friends. Sorry but thats the truth. He was no more evil than me, but this adoration is misplaced. Look at his Legacy that still runs through the corruption of the Progressives. Its always puzzled me why people lauded him for allowing Alberta to be looted.
His Party was never harmed. Indeed perks, & wages have just gone higher over the years with abrief interruption from Ralph.

Ralph Klein was the man that built Alberta.

Ralph Klein was the man that built Alberta.