" m: u/ q; I9 l' R) {1 q0 Q3 cJoe Oliver: Yet more proof foreign radicals (yes, radicals) are sabotaging Canada’s economy * D+ n9 @# _5 j2 t' b& \6 m. \Special to Financial Post Joe Oliver& D0 L* w% N- s3 N3 Q% ]% a
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 $15 billion this year, due to lack of access to international markets, and much more in lost capital investments. 5 V$ v8 a2 G9 F. ^5 j4 v
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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.