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Joe Oliver: Yet more proof foreign radicals (yes, radicals) are sabotaging Canada’s economy; r- ^3 m# \4 ?3 k" d
Special to Financial Post Joe Oliver% J5 ?/ i4 I q" h* B
The latest proof is in, although the facts have been obvious for many years. Foreigners are financing and organizing opposition in Canada to natural resource development, part of an anti-fossil-fuel campaign that is costing our economy an estimated $15 billion this year, due to lack of access to international markets, and much more in lost capital investments. + I) Y' X' E x. i% N4 Q 3 _) V3 l4 O* r/ V1 J( p. X0 XPerhaps the most recent little gem will finally get the chattering class to acknowledge reality: A leaked U.S. document preparing mass-action protests against Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. It sets out goals and operating principles for a clandestine organization designed to drive political resistance under the guise of an independent rank-and-file protest movement.