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Originally Posted by rubecube
How is saying that money spent on Canadian oil goes to a government who enforces environmental standards and doesn't use the money to oppress it's people, as opposed to money that goes to the Saudis, where everything is the exact opposite, a logical fallacy?
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I'm reminded of the old Dudley Moore movie
Crazy People where Moore's character is a burnt-out advertising executive who ends up in an insane asylum. There he concocts a campaign for the Greek tourism council that went "Visit Greece, we're nicer than the French."
So I take it Newman's pitch is "Buy your oil from those nice Canadians."
How about the same for those nice, Canadian wheat farmers? Or those nice, Canadian auto-workers?
The same companies drilling in Nigeria or Saudi Arabia do business in Alberta too.
His pitch does nothing to protect the Canadian environment, nor does it do anything to help oppressed third-world people.