Petro-Canada was later privatized.

At the time, Opposition leader Trudeau said that he would allow the Progressive Conservatives a chance to govern, though he warned the Prime Minister against dismantling Petro-Canada, which was unpopular in Clark's home province of Alberta.

Petro-Canada was also developing a $ 33 billion Fort Hills Project, in partnership with UTS Energy Corporation and Teck Cominco, which lost momentum after the 2009 merger of Petro-Canada into Suncor.

He had a role in the creation of the Canadian International Development Agency and in 1976 he was appointed to run Petro-Canada.

Petro-Canada, the government-established oil company headquartered in Calgary, was made responsible for implementing much of the Program.

Until 2009, it was a crown corporation of Canada, headquartered at the Petro-Canada Centre in Calgary, Alberta.

Petro-Canada was founded as a Crown Corporation in 1975 by an act of Parliament.

This expanded Petro-Canada, but it was detrimental to Alberta's economy.

The merger of Petro-Canada and Suncor was announced on March 23, 2009.

As of 2008, Petro-Canada was Canada's 11th largest company and the second-largest downstream company, with important interests in such projects as Hibernia, Terra Nova, and White Rose ; its gas stations remained a presence in most Canadian cities.

Assman, who co-owned a Petro-Canada outlet at Victoria Square Mall in Regina, was discovered by David Letterman, who was amused by his name.

The discovery well was Terra Nova K-08 drilled in 1984 by Petro-Canada.

In opposition, Andre was a vocal opponent of Petro-Canada and the National Energy Program.

He was appointed by Pierre Trudeau to the board of directors of Petro-Canada which had been created as a state-owned crown corporation, in part, due to Laxer's arguments.

His father, Richard Swann, was head of oil and gas exploration for Canadian Fina for many years, before that company was sold to Petro-Canada.

Very Nervous System was awarded the first Petro-Canada Award for Media Arts in 1988 and Austria's Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction for Interactive Art in 1991.

The present day BP Canada was created after a long history of joint ventures, mergers, spun-offs, and amalgamation of a number of companies-which include the 1982 divestment of its downstream assets to Petro-Canada, and the 1992 demerger of its upstream division into Talisman Energy Inc.

BP retail operations disappeared from Canada in the early 1980s, when in 1982, BP Canada divested its downstream assets to Petro-Canada, which was at the time owned by the Government of Canada.

This was done in order to unify all of their downstream retail operations under the Petro-Canada banner throughout Canada.

On 4 June 2009, a 98 % approval rate was reached by Suncor's shareholders for the acquisition of Petro-Canada and the competition bureau approved the merger on June 21, 2009.

In 1976, at the request of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Strong returned to Canada to head the newly created national oil company, Petro-Canada.

The Liberal government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau instituted attempts to assert domestic economic control such as the creation of Petro-Canada, meant to assert Canadian control of the energy sector, and the Foreign Investment Review Agency, intended to review and limit foreign ownership and particularly American takeovers of Canadian companies.

Despite being appointed to the board of directors of government-owned oil company Petro-Canada by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, he led the union to endorse the NDP in the 1980s, and became a vice-president of the party.

These developments led to measures such as the creation of Petro-Canada, a government-owned oil and gas company, implemented by the Trudeau government in the mid-1970s to increase Canadian control over the oil industry.

Almost every gas station in Canada offers some sort of program such as Esso Extra at the Esso gas stations, Petro Points at Petro-Canada, Save-On-More at some Chevron stations in BC, Canadian Tire money at Canadian Tire gas stations, or a coupon that grants the customer 3. 5 cents off per litre of fuel purchased at Sobeys Fast Fuel locations that can be used at a Sobeys banner store.

* 8 companies control our oil and gas ( Husky Energy ) ( Imperial Oil ) ( Nexe ) ( Petro-Canada ) ( Shell Canada ) ( Suncor Energy ) ( Syncrude Canada ) ( Talisman Energy )

Internationally, Loblaws supermarkets and Petro-Canada gas stations in Canada along with BP Service Stations and BP Travel Centres and Seven Eleven in Australia carry Krispy Kreme.

Former Crown corporations before their privatization include Air Canada, St. Lawrence Seaway Authority, and Petro-Canada.

Petro-Canada, Canadian National Railway, and Air Canada are examples of former federal Crown corporations that have been privatized.

* March 23-The government of Canada will sell its stake in Petro-Canada within next twelve months.

In 1976, Petro-Canada purchased Atlantic Richfield Canada, in 1978 Pacific Petroleums, and in 1981 Petrofina.

Most of the original Petro-Canada refineries and service stations were acquired from BP Canada in 1983.

In June 2010, CIBC said it has signed a deal to buy a $ 2. 1 billion credit card portfolio from Citigroup ’ s Citibank Canada MasterCard business including the Citi Petro-Canada MasterCard ( but excluding the Citi Petro-Canada personal credit card ).

He returned to Canada to become Chief Executive Officer of Petro-Canada from 1976 to 1978.

A libertarian at heart, he campaigned on a platform of free trade with the United States, privatizing government-owned Crown corporations like Air Canada, Petro-Canada and Canadian National Railway, retiring the national debt and, most radical of all, a flat tax — a fixed rate of income tax everyone who earned more than a minimum salary would pay.

* The Petro-Canada Centre of Love in Calgary, Canada is completed and opened.

Petro-Canada is the brand identity of Suncor's service stations throughout Canada.

With the merger of Petro-Canada and Suncor Energy on August 1, 2009, Suncor now sells its products under the Petro-Canada name across Canada.

Enough funds were raised by the Friends to purchase the buildings already on the site of their proposed heritage park, including a Petro-Canada gas station.

These sites outside of North America were run by the International and Offshore Business Unit of Petro-Canada with its headquarters in London.

During the times of increasing price of gas, she made a daring move by asking her radio listeners to boycott Petro-Canada to push the country's national fuel company to decrease its prices.

Discovered in 1984 by Petro-Canada, the field is the second largest off Canada's East Coast.

The refinery was later acquired by British Petroleum and subsequently, Petro-Canada.

Petro-Canada has since been privatized and in 2009 was acquired by Suncor Energy.

BP retail operations disappeared from Canada in the early 1980s, when in 1982, BP Canada divested its downstream assets to Petro-Canada, which was at the time owned by the Government of Canada.