So where do I find the line about shutting down the oil sands? Every party, including the CPC wants to increase the environmental regulations, oil sands included. Even the provincial government is moving in that direction. The CPC policy is to go the route of cap and trade as well, something that I completely disagree with regardless of the party implementing it.
The Northern Gateway, whether you're for it or against it, will never be built. There is so much opposition to it from the communities that it would basically be jamming it down people's throats there. Every week it seems there are new cities and councils that have voted against it.
It's a serious stretch to think that the Liberals want to shutdown the oil sands when they took no steps to do so during their tenure. In fact we all know that feds in general love the cash from these things. It helps them to fund all kinds of little pet projects.
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