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Originally Posted by pepper24
No denying climate change and it needs to be taken seriously but the oilsands are only 0.12% of global GHG. A rounding error basically. Canada can and will do better but we have to look at our role in the global picture.
We cannot kill jobs and industry when globally we aren't the problem. Canada needs to balance jobs vs. environment. I'd need to be convinced of this balance from the NDP or Liberals and that they'll stick up for industry before I'd vote for them.
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Well the NDP has done nothing to convince me of that fact. In the debate and leading up to this election though Trudeau consistently spoken of the need to grow and balance this growth with environmental factors. His point that the need to factor in the environment doesn't mean that we should grow is basically exactly how I feel on the issue.
Couple that with the point he has made continually about the oilsands being an enormous benefit and continued campaigning here in Alberta on that point and I think you have a pretty solid stance from them. ll that needs to happen to bolster that is to send a good group of Liberals to Ottawa who are in that same vein.