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Originally Posted by Regorium

Right. Because literally the most strict environmental regulations in the entire world is not enough for you. What more leadership does he have to show, other than to convince the uneducated masses?

So getting rid of our waterway protections was a good thing? Systematically dismantling scientific environmental monitoring and silencing scientists who may have something bad to say? Had he shown some leadership in the CO2 game earlier on, I strongly suspect KXL would have had a better chance. I'm not alone on thinking this.

Without the necessary infrastructure, Canada risks missing out on a vast opportunity for wealth and job creation.
How was this allowed to happen? The pipeline companies’ tin ears are partly to blame, but, ironically, so is Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s relentless oil and gas boosterism. Instead of convincing critics Canada could be trusted to develop a carbon-intensive resource in a sustainable fashion, Ottawa instead boasted about Canada’s “emerging energy superpower” status, lashed out at environmentalists and thumbed its nose at international climate change efforts, painting a target on the industry’s back in the process. Just a few weeks ago, Harper stood in the House of Commons and called the idea of federal emissions regulations for the oil and gas sector “crazy” when crude prices are falling (not that he was a fan when they were soaring). This while Canada and other countries were supposed to be laying groundwork for a global emissions deal during a climate change conference in Lima, Peru. “I can’t understand how he could be so careless with the oil industry, particularly the oil sands,” says David Anderson, a former Liberal environment minister. He argues that, in the case of Keystone XL, the federal government has allowed the project to become a poster child for climate change just as Obama is “trying to create an environmental legacy for himself in his last two years.”

http://www.macleans.ca/politics/otta...s-worst-enemy/

He has built the oil industry into the enemy of the other provinces, so it is an easy target for Ontario or Quebec to rally around. What I'm saying is if he had insisted on proper water monitoring at the oilsands and taken CO2 seriously others would be more likely to see Canada and Alberta as developing our oil industry responsibly and be more willing to allow pipelines. Instead, we are now the enemy.