http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lind...ound-1.3183999
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Linda McQuaig, a star New Democratic Party candidate, says Alberta's oilsands may need to remain undeveloped in order for Canada to meet its climate change targets. The NDP candidate for Toronto Centre told CBC News Network's Power & Politics there should not be a rush to extract from the oilsands without proper environmental assessments.
"A lot of the oilsands oil may have to stay in the ground if we're going to meet our climate change targets," McQuaig said.
"We'll know that better once we properly put in place a climate change accountability system of some kind," she told host Rosemary Barton. "And… once we have a proper review process for our environmental projects like pipelines."
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McQuaig later qualified her comments. "I didn't say I want this oil left in the ground. I said we have to have environmental standards." McQuaig suggested that former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed has himself called for a moratorium on the oilsands.
In fact, in 2011 Lougheed voiced his opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline on economic grounds.
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Before NDP supporters dismiss this as the opinion of a single candidate, McQuaig is considered to be a star candidate, is on probably the biggest political show in the country speaking for the party and would surely be a contender for a cabinet post.