Peter Lougheed

Peter Lougheed    ( lawyer,  politician)
Born	Edgar Peter Lougheed July 26, 1928  Calgary,  Alberta,  Canada
Died	September 13, 2012 (Age 84)  Calgary,  Alberta,  Canada
Nationality	Canada
Alma mater	•  University of Alberta •  Harvard University
Children	4
Spouse	Jeanne Lougheed
Member of	Trilateral Commission
Party	Progressive Conservative
Relatives	James Alexander Lougheed
Canadian Premier of Alberta who attended the 1973 Bilderberg  Premier of Alberta In office September 10, 1971 - November 1, 1985  Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Calgary West In office May 23, 1967 - February 28, 1986

Edgar Peter Lougheed was a Canadian lawyer and politician who was premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985. He attended the 1973 Bilderberg meeting and was a member of the Trilateral Commission.

Background

Born in Calgary, Alberta, Peter was the son of Edgar Donald Lougheed and Edna Alexandria Bauld and grandson of Canadian Senator Sir James Alexander Lougheed, a prominent Alberta businessman.

Education

Peter Lougheed attended the University of Alberta where he attained his Bachelor of Laws while playing football at the University of Alberta before joining the Edmonton Eskimos of the Western Interprovincial Football Union for two seasons in 1949 and 1950.

Career

After graduating, he entered business and practised law in Calgary. In 1965, he was elected leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party, which held no seats in the legislature. He led the party back into the legislature in the 1967 provincial election as the leader of the Official Opposition, then elected as Premier with 49 of 75 seats in the 1971 election, defeating the Social Credit Party and ending the dynasty which had governed Alberta since 1935. Lougheed established a progressive conservative dynasty in the province that lasted until 2015, when the New Democratic Party won a majority government; at 43 years and 7 months it was the longest unbroken run in government for a political party in Canadian history. Lougheed led the Tories again to victory in 1975, 1979 and 1982, winning landslide majorities each time, with vote tallies of 57 to 63 percent of votes cast.

As premier, Lougheed furthered the development of the oil and gas resources, and started the Alberta Heritage Fund to ensure that the exploitation of non-renewable resources would be of long-term benefit to Alberta. He introduced the Alberta Bill of Rights. He quarrelled with Pierre Trudeau's federal Liberal government over its 1980 introduction of the National Energy Program. After hard bargaining, Lougheed and Trudeau eventually reached an agreement for energy revenue sharing in 1981. Calgary's bid to host the 1988 Winter Olympics was developed during Lougheed's terms. Alberta also experienced economic success and went through significant social reform under the Lougheed administration.

From 1996 to 2002, Lougheed was Chancellor of Queen's University. Lougheed was selected to the board of directors of a number of Canadian businesses, and at one time held a seat on 17 different boards. These corporations included ATCO, Royal Bank of Canada, Princeton Developments, Nortel, CFCN Communications, Bombardier, Canadian Pacific Railway, Keyera, Carlson Construction and a number of other businesses. Lougheed continued to support the development of Alberta's natural gas industry, becoming the chair of the Alberta Northeast Gas project which promoted the construction of the Iroquois Pipeline. Lougheed was picked a member of the Trilateral Commission.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1973	11 May 1973	13 May 1973	Sweden Saltsjöbaden	The meeting at which the 1973 oil crisis appears to have been planned.

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