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Originally Posted by Sluggo
And Might I add a shadow 'Grass Roots' campaign with financial sources from Russia, Saudi, Qatar, and the Americans. It is quite well known that Canada is effectively 10 micro nations and you don't have to spend as much money to pit the Provinces and against each other and then you can double down and Pick away at a pipeline or export terminal by throwing money at local First Nations.
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Are we trotting this line out again? Cause I remember Jason Kenney pouring almost $4M into a boondoggle of an inquiry and all they could turn up was $50M that was specifically foreign funded anti energy messages in an environment of almost $1B going to environmental charities.
And that even for that money, there was no wrongdoing, nor could they specifically attribute money to specific campaigns or cancelled projects to foreign funding.
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However, “I was ultimately not able to trace with precision the quantum of foreign funding applied to anti-Alberta energy campaigns,” said Allan, adding that it’s too difficult to trace money after an organization receives it and uses it for “varied and complex” missions.
The energy industry in Alberta has been targeted by organizations that have claimed victory when projects have fallen through, but the sector has also faced “difficult economic circumstances,” he wrote.
“While anti-Alberta energy campaigns may have played a role in the cancellation of some oil and gas developments, I am not in a position to find that these campaigns alone caused project delays or cancellations,” Allan said.
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https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...nt-argues.html
So can we put this narrative that foreign governments have a secret agenda to wage campaigns to cancel Canadian energy infrastructure? Does it happen that foreign actors might fund campaigns? Sure, but it's not a nefarious coordinated campaign. And anyways, we do the exact same thing putting out our own propaganda that's pro Canadian O&G and trashing energy from everywhere else with our $30M/yr war room. Frankly nobody cares about Canada except Canada, we're too small.