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every task force initiative since 1981." The BCNI "asks members to consider issues from a national perspective. Advocacy of individual company concerns is discouraged. Second, great emphasis is placed on balancing interests when specific issues are under consideration. This requires compromise and long-term thinking. Another reason lies in the values which members share, values shaped by a belief in the liberal democratic tradition, in the market economy, in limited and accountable government, and in an independent Canada within a strong
Western alliance." cited in Langille.
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Another early success was BCNI's role in engineering the landmark 1985 Western Accord on Energy. BCNI arranged a series of meetings between "oil executives and the
Alberta Government, industrialists and the Ontario government, and bankers and the Federal Government." The Western Accord signed on June
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By 1987, BCNI members included the CEOs of 150 Canadian corporations representing $ 700 billion in assets. By 1987, the BCNI has been successful in forging "common positions on major issues... the wide diversity of sectoral and regional representation ... consensus has been achieved in virtually
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In 1999, the BCNI membership "administered more than $ 2 trillion in assets, ha a yearly turnover of more than $ 500 billion, employ about one in ten working
Canadians and responsible for a majority of Canadian private sector investment, exports, research and development and training." d'Aquino
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in order to be competitive. They wrote that, the "preservation of relatively free inter-provincial trade within the Canadian federation is essential to the economic welfare of all Canadians."
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