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Originally Posted by GGG
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.
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Ok thats fine but at that time was there as large of public support as much as there is today for climate change initiatives? No. Today its much more of predominate topic because there is even more data proving so.
Shifting economies based on hydrocarbon products to renewable energies is not an easy task and will take decades to do so and require the cooperation of everyone globally.
So to do so when there is no global nor national apatite to do so and to be 'first in' on something that only disadvantages a population of ~34M for the short term, when the same goal can be achieved with global cooperation and less short term pain at a later time again is illogical.