People in Alberta and Saskatchewan have Twitter, and read articles, and watch the evening news. When the PM and his closest confidants open up on the oil industry, are westerners supposed to assume he means some other oil industry, not theirs?
And this isn’t long-ago stuff. This is stuff that, in some cases, was being used as a central plank in Liberal messaging just days ago. The Liberals were hammering “dark oil money” in tweets through the party’s official account just weeks ago. In the French language debates, Trudeau attacked Kenney and Ford and “les petroliers qui les appuient” (the oil men who support them, in my rough translation). Two weeks ago, Liberal campaign organizer and close Trudeau confidant Gerald Butts was tweeting that the Conservative platform had been written by “the oil lobby.” He didn’t mean that in a good way. Nor does recently re-elected environment minister Catherine McKenna use the term “oil lobbyists” as one of endearment when she warns about the damage they’ll do to Canada’s environment and Indigenous peoples.
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