| A | B |
| Oil Embargo | A suspension of trade in oil. |
| Inflation | The rise in prices for goods and services that increases the cost of living and triggers the demand for a war in wages. |
| Regionalism | A concern for the affairs of one's own region over those of one's country. |
| Regional Disparity | Differences in resources and jobs, and in wages and prices from one geographic region to another. |
| Western Alienation | Dissatisfaction felt in Western Canada, based on belief that the federal gov't overlooks their needs and favours Central Canada. |
| Transfer Payments | Federal gov't funds allocated to provincial gov't to pay for education, health care, and other programs. |
| CRTC Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission | Trudeau offered this to give Canada a sense of complete Canadian programming |
| Wage and Price Controls | Regulations that limit the increases that business, and gov't can make in wages they pay employees and prices they charge for goods. |
| Petro-Canada | Created to develop and explore Canada's oil reserves and to supply oil and gas to the public. |
| National Energy Program | Had three aims: reduce consumption of oil, Protect Canada from raising prices, and make Canada self sufficent. |