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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Here it is in context in the article... I would argue that the context does not make it ANY better from Suzuki's perspective at all.
Brad Wall: “Whatever it is we agree to going into Paris, whatever we agree to as a country, we need to make sure we understand what impact that’s going to have on jobs. What additional impact will that have on the energy sector, which is already suffering massive layoffs in our country?”
Suzuki: “It sounds very much to me like southern states argued in the 19th century, that to eliminate slavery would destroy their economy,”
That really does strike me as creating a moral equivalence between exploitation of the oil sands and exploitation of slave labour.
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Do you disagree with the premise? That something more important than economy is at stake so the defense is weak