Joe Oliver Goes to War Again

Uh oh. He's BAAAAACK!!!

Joe "Oily" Oliver, the screaming scarecrow of the Tar Sands.

First he called Canadian environmentalists job killing extremists, and tools of foreign interests.

Then he promised we would be able to drink the tarry bubbly from the tailing ponds. And that it would taste like prosperity.

Now he's back as crazy as ever, waving his twiggy arms around, and claiming that Thomas Mulcair is unfit to govern.

Thomas Mulcair's refusal to lobby for the Keystone XL pipeline proves the NDP leader's unfit to govern, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said Tuesday.

Oliver said Mulcair's vow not to support the pipeline proposed to take Alberta oilsands bitumen to the U.S. Gulf Coast when he meets U.S. government officials in Washington, D.C., this week is a betrayal of Canada's economic future.

When of course it's crazy old Oily and his Cons who are unfit to govern, and the real tools of foreign interests. They are the ones who are betraying the future of Canada and the planet.

And Mulcair had every right to warn the Americans that they're dealing with a bunch of con artists.

In meetings with U.S. lawmakers and business executives, Mulcair is telling Americans the Canadian government is “playing people for fools” by claiming that its environmental record is world class and that it cares about climate change.

“In the U.S. people know how to read,” he said in an interview. “They know that Canada is the only country that has withdrawn from Kyoto. They know that the Conservatives can’t possibly meet their Copenhagen targets (on greenhouse gas emissions) precisely because of the oilsands. They have to stop playing people for fools.”

Because can you believe it eh? Those ghastly oil pimps have been parading around Washington posing as environmentalists, and trying to scam our neighbours. Have you ever heard of anything so ridiculous and so outrageous? Have those eco-criminals no SHAME?

Mulcair is also right to say that it's up to Americans to decide the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline. Just like the New York Times was right to say that the fate of the oil sands is for Canadians to decide.

Supporters of the pipeline have argued that this is oil from a friendly country and that Canada will sell it anyway. We hope Mr. Obama will see the flaw in this argument. Saying no to the pipeline will not stop Canada from developing the tar sands, but it will force the construction of new pipelines through Canada itself. And that will require Canadians to play a larger role in deciding whether a massive expansion of tar sands development is prudent.

As it should have been from the beginning. Because the runaway development of that already massive project is killing good jobs all over the country, leading us to economic disaster, and torching the future of the planet we ALL live on.

We should have a great Canadian debate, but of course we won't. Because Obama will probably approve the XL pipeline, the Cons will plough ahead with their mad project to make Alberta richer, while the rest of us get poorer.

And the only consolation is that with this kind of pressure on him Obama will almost certainly force the Cons to swallow a carbon tax. You know, "the NDP's job killing carbon tax." The Big Lie that they have been bleating about, almost every day, for over a year.

And that should just about KILL Great Green Oil Pimp Leader...

Make him look even more ridiculous, and even more like a STOOGE...



If that's possible...

And should convince most sane Canadians that it's time to give those con klowns the hook before they make even greater fools out of themselves.

Before they shame us further...



Before people start pointing at us and saying "Those are the idiots who elected them."

Yikes. Oh well. Just think of that carbon tax eh?

Think of Great Pimp Leader choking on it. Or trying to convince people it was his idea, before he was against it, before he was for it again. Or that he isn't insane.

Think of old Oily Oliver, guzzling a little too much of his Tarry Bubbly. 

And coming in for a hard landing...



And then ask yourself, how could this monstrous horror show ever happen?

What are we going to do about it?

And how can we make sure that it never happens again?

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