Canada Warns Obama on Keystone XL Pipeline

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6. Mr. Oilsands, Stephen Harper, speaks for "western" oil interests. Period.

In this particular he is no more "Canadian" than that the Alberta oil sands are in Canada, are owned by western interests, and are worth 100s of billions of US$$$. (yes, Harper is a fucking stooge)
They are only worth that if they can get the sludge to market. After western interests have spent US$$billions$$ in developing the Alberta oil sands, with the total destruction of the ecosphere as "collateral damage", it's highly unlikely that western oil interests won't get their profit.

That's all the Canadian ambassador was saying.

There's actually a bidding war on this, with "ecological interests" used as a piece captured en passant.
In fact there's nobody acting purely in the interest of Canada, in these dealings. Not on the provincial or federal scene. The left in Canada is AWOL.

China is interested.
The greatest creative use of Canadian political minds, so far, has been to argue an equation "jobs vs environmental concerns", which is something I would expect of Canada in the early 1900's (but done better!!!), but isn't acceptable to me in 2113.