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Originally Posted by Tacopuck
Climate Change denial? No consultation of data? Look at Canada's GHG production relative other countries. We are not the problem. Can we make further progress? Absolutely, but to sell the farm and handicap our biggest industry which drives the rest of the country in order to do so at a faster pace of other countries that are worse polluters is illogical.
Banning of foreign investment? They simply implemented rules so that foreign companies couldn't come into Canada for O&G resources that would put Canada at a loss. They wanted any foreign purchase to be of a net benefit to Canada.
While I disagree with a few things the conservatives did but as I do with ANY political party, politics is basically choosing the least of all evils. And clearly we have a different view of what evil entails.
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Being okay with climate change, or saying Canada can't make a difference would be one thing but the early conservative government was part of the science isn't settled crowd. My main issue with the conservatives wasn't so much policy. It was the refusal to use data to support any policy. Policy was based on ideology.
The foreign company ownership rules kneecapped funding for junior oil companies. For them that was more damaging then income trusts, and lack of pipelines. Essentially the plant or oil leases could no longer be used as collateral for foreign debt, and investors couldn't own more than x percent.