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Joe Oliver: Yet more proof foreign radicals (yes, radicals) are sabotaging Canada’s economy0 n+ S5 B o0 A! |
Special to Financial Post Joe Oliver+ B4 d- x' P$ B. S! d+ y8 g
The latest proof is in, although the facts have been obvious for many years. Foreigners are financing and organizing opposition in Canada to natural resource development, part of an anti-fossil-fuel campaign that is costing our economy an estimated $15 billion this year, due to lack of access to international markets, and much more in lost capital investments. 8 V8 h" }3 F& ]: H
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Perhaps the most recent little gem will finally get the chattering class to acknowledge reality: A leaked U.S. document preparing mass-action protests against Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. It sets out goals and operating principles for a clandestine organization designed to drive political resistance under the guise of an independent rank-and-file protest movement.