NOW Toronto: Alice Klein on the real foreign money behind the Gateway pipeline

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Alice Klein on the real foreign money behind the Gateway pipeline
By Alice Klein


Has he gone too far this time?

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has shown many times over that he has little regard for democracy. I mean, how did we learn to spell the word “prorogue”?

The long record is too wearisome to recount, but the ominous new attack on opponents of the Northern Gateway pipeline has opened a front in his battle against civil society that makes you wonder. Now that we’re watching the 1 per cent more closely, will the times still be on Harper’s side?

Thousands of citizens are in the queue to give deputations at the public regulatory hearings into the proposed pipeline, which will cut through 1,200 kilometres of Canada’s northern mountains and streams to deliver tar sands product to waiting tankers in northern BC’s sensitive coastal waters. .......................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=184717

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1. "The Koch brothers have a huge stake in the Alberta Tar Sands"

That fact certainly explains Harper's actions.