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B.C. Premier Christy Clark strictly criticizes NDP leader Thomas Mulcair’s stance on oilsands. Clark calls Mulcair’s viewpoint goofy. Mulcair basically alleged in a recent interview that the natural resource sector of western Canada is making other parts of the country suffer.
“The NDP likes to talk about how they’re going to fund health care and education, they’re going to expand our social programs,” Clark said on Saturday. “But then on the other hand they say, ‘We don’t like all this economic development, we don’t like all this growth.’ You can’t have it both ways.”
Mulcair insist that the oil sands are basically damaging the economic prosperity of the other parts of the country. According to him, B.C.’s oil, gas, forestry and mining industries lift the value of the Canadian dollar, which has a negative effect on the industrial area of Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick.
Mulcair called it the ‘Dutch disease,’ referring to the crumpling of Netherlands’ industries in the 1960s, while Clark called his thinking “backward”. Clark said British Columbia is adding to the riches of Canada.
“We are trying to step off and make the biggest contribution we have ever made to Confederation,” she said.
Moreover, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall also believes Mulcair’s comments were ridiculous. He referred to them as “very, very divisive for someone who aspires to be the prime minister.”
“I think Mr. Mulcair and the NDP need to be a little bit prouder of the fact we’re an energy power at a time when most of the economies of the world are struggling,” Wall said. “This is a good news story for the entire country, not just the West. It’s as if he’s ashamed of the resource sector in the West – and I just don’t think it’s helpful.”
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