Canadian opposition leader: Government playing US 'for fools' on Keystone

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Canada’s opposition leader will visit Washington, D.C., this week to counter statements by Canadian officials in a recent lobbying blitz supporting the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline.
The trip by Tom Mulcair, of Canada’s New Democratic Party, comes amidst a series of United States trips by Canadian officials to meet with Obama administration personnel and lawmakers about the pipeline.


According to Canada’s National Post, Mulcair’s message to the lawmakers and business executives with whom he plans to meet is that the Canadian government is “playing people for fools” by championing the nation’s environmental record.

Ostensibly, the goal is to convince U.S. policymakers that Canada wouldn’t back Keystone if it were as bad for the climate and environment as opponents claim.
But Mulcair said those statements were dishonest.
“In the U.S. people know how to read. They know that Canada is the only country that has withdrawn from (the) Kyoto (Protocol). They know that the Conservatives can’t possibly meet their Copenhagen targets (on greenhouse gas emissions) precisely because of the oil sands.”
He called Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party “out of step with the whole planet” and “weak and disinterested on the environment.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/287715-canadian-opposition-leader-government-playing-us-for-fools-on-keystone#ixzz2NRC1ryah

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1. Our entire species

is out of step with the planet.

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2. K/R