They are only interested when commodity prices are going up, as they were when oil prices went up and Western Canadians were reaping the benefits of world prices and hence we had the National Energy Program imposed by the Liberals, a program that redistributed billions of dollars all across Canada, money that belonged to the producing provinces.
The National Energy Program was not supported by conservatives.
The National Energy Program was supported by Liberals, which means that Conservatives would have opposed the redistribution of wealth.  The system likely did not understand the beliefs of those two entities.
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