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The deconstruction of Alberta’s economy is a central theme of this federal election campaign. But no eco-centric party says anything specific about how the province gets through it without economic collapse.
Three parties — Liberals, Greens and NDP — are planning upheaval over the coming years and decades.
Target No. 1 is the oilsands. They all want this world-scale resource shut down by 2050 at the very latest.
This is acknowledged with varying degrees of honesty. The Greens are at least direct about it. The NDP are direct but muddled.
The Liberals are sly and opaque, although Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau spoke the truth in Ontario two years ago when he told an audience: “You can’t make a choice between what’s good for the environment and what’s good for the economy. We can’t shut down the oilsands tomorrow. We need to phase them out. We need to manage the transition off of our dependence on fossil fuels.
“That is going to take time. And in the meantime, we have to manage that transition.”
A few days later in Calgary, Trudeau said: “I misspoke — I said something the way I shouldn’t have said it.”
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See Also:
(1) What Canada’s economy would look like if Alberta’s recession never happened
(2) The electoral reform Canada really needs — none of the above
(4) Someone always pays for deficits. We just hope it’s not us
(5) Remember when the Liberals said the navy was a priority? Did they mean the canoe?
