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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
The idea of social license, even internally in Canada outright failed. And Canada's reliance on the concept of somehow being soft on using our resources is going to lend an example isn't going to work.
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I hear people say this - and environmental action will never placate the most ardent opponents to resource development to be sure. But, the Prime Minister did use climate action as political cover with respect to decisions around TransMountain. Clearly he believed that was important in some respect to convincing the large political middle in Canada that this was a good decision. I don't think you can unequivocally say social licence as a concept outright failed, or will always fail. If he didn't understand this below statement to have political value, he simply would not have used it as rationale.
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"Let me say this definitively, we could not have approved this project without the leadership of Premier Notley and Alberta's climate leadership plan," Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa Tuesday while announcing the go-ahead of the pipeline. "A plan that commits to pricing carbon and capping oilsands emissions at 100 megatonnes per year."
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...vals-1.3873664