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Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop
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.
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Yes they are, but we can at least regulate them here. The more business they do here, the less they do in those other countries.
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His pitch does nothing to protect the Canadian environment, nor does it do anything to help oppressed third-world people.
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How can you possibly know that it wouldn't help at all? It sounds like you're more concerned with the NIMBY aspect of things than the plight of people in those countries.
I'm not disagreeing with you that its idealistic and probably a bit naive, but there is logic behind it and it's an interesting take on the situation.