Saturday, June 22, 2019

PUTTING THE BOOTS TO ALBERTA

Governor General Julie Payette can be forgiven if she is somewhat hand-weary today, having spent the last day of parliament giving Royal Assent with the flip of her pen to a stack of legislation — the two most-controversial bills widely seen as the death knell to Canada’s oil sector.

This is great news, of course, to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who has vowed to see the end of the carbon stain of the oilsands — now and in the future — and fare thee well to the billions of dollars in revenues, and hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs, that will go with it.

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