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Joe Oliver: Yet more proof foreign radicals (yes, radicals) are sabotaging Canada’s economy1 x G5 R1 k V2 V6 @3 `- `2 }) a
Special to Financial Post Joe Oliver 9 r& G) h$ s4 t9 PThe 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 $15 billion this year, due to lack of access to international markets, and much more in lost capital investments. + B. m$ u5 M \( q+ c8 ]0 f9 c0 { G5 L# k5 A
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.