Braid: Federal minister shows extreme bias against Alberta oil
The federal Liberals are starting to reveal what they really think. And they think demon oil is the perfect foil for October’s federal election.
The zealous minister misses her own irony. “Scheming behind closed doors with wealthy executives” is an exact description of Liberal behaviour in the SNC-Lavalin case.The telling part is her assumption that the goal of the meeting was to “gut environmental protections law.” In 2016, executives of Canadian Natural Resources, Suncor Energy, Cenovus Energy and Shell Canada publicly backed the NDP’s plan for both a cap and provincial carbon tax.
McKenna’s talk of “wealthy executives” also ignores the real victims of these disastrous years — scores of small oil companies owned and operated by Albertans. Related McKenna also tweeted: “At the meeting, the Conservatives specifically discussed ‘deploying litigation as a tool’ to silence environmental critics …
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