"The stupidest thing you can do (is) to run against an industry that is providing employment for hundreds of thousands of Canadians, and not just in Alberta, but right across the country," Ignatieff told an audience largely of business graduate students at HEC Montreal, a management school affiliated with the University of Montreal. Full Story »
Posted by Dennis Baker
I read it, and am not sure what it said. It sounds like a Canadian "liberal" is endorsing the worst environmental disaster in Canada's history.
That may change in the fall, or whenever an election campaign beckons. It’s entirely possible that the Liberals’ platform will address climate change in a way that balances economic and environmental interests, presumably through some form of cap-and-trade plan.
Cap and trade can be a dangerous farce.
Tar sands mining is an environmental disaster, and should stop. Think conservation, wind, solar.