Mulcair Claims Harper Government Has Entirely Failed to Protect Environment

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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The NDP Leader, Thomas Mulcair, has asserted that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government has completely failed massively in its handling of Alberta’s oil sands. Mulcair was addressing a speech in Washington, when he bashed the Conservatives, saying that “I don’t think we are applying the basic rules of sustainable development in Canada right now, we’ve been clear about that.”

Mulcair further added that the Conservative government “is not enforcing our own federal legislation, we’re not protecting the groundwater, we not protecting the eco-systems, we’re not protecting First Nations’ health.” However, the opposition leader completely refrained from publicly announcing whether he is “for” or “against” Keystone XL, at least not during his recent trip to Washington and New York, when he is presumed to specially address the controversial pipeline for shipping carbon-heavy Alberta oil sands crude to refineries on the Texas Gulf coast. When pin pointedly inquired about his stance regarding the approval of Keystone, Mr. Mulcair alleged that “it is an answer because the NDP would have had as a priority a Canadian solution to bring that product (Alberta oil sands crude) from west to east, that was what we would want … the project that is there is the result of the activities of a federal government that doesn’t respect the basic rules of sustainable development.”

Even though he completely refrains from taking a stance in public, it is highly speculated that Mr. Mulcair is becoming more direct about his stance on the project in face-to-face talks. For instance, recently he discussed Keystone on Tuesday during a meeting with Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat leader in the House of Representatives, and the most powerful political player that agreed to see the NDP leader.

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