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Originally Posted by Hesla
This is one of the reasons I voted liberal for the first time in My life. Crockat told me on the phone that this was what she believed and that climate change was aprotectionist racket funded by the U.S. Oil Industry.
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Given I didn't say anything about climate change, your point is horribly misguided. I am quite sure that most of the environmentalists on the ground are acting with the best interests of the planet and fighting climate change. But whether you or they realize it or not, most of their funding is coming from American sources working very hard to obfuscate their origin. And you are kidding yourself if you don't think keeping Canadian oil beholden to the American market at prices far below what it could otherwise command if we had easier access to other countries is very much part of the point. The funding is coming from people who have been targetting Canadian oil long before the post-hoc argument that Harper's environmental record is to blame. And the targets are only Canadian oil. Not American. Most of the "dirtiest" oil in North America is actually mined and produced in California, but you don't see these groups fighting very hard against their own national interests, do you?