According to a cable acquired by WikiLeaks, former Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice considered regulating oil sands extraction:
The new minister – Peter Kent – prefers to repeat Ezra Levant’s claims about ‘ethical oil’.
According to a cable acquired by WikiLeaks, former Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice considered regulating oil sands extraction:
The new minister – Peter Kent – prefers to repeat Ezra Levant’s claims about ‘ethical oil’.
Behind that Prentice Wikileak
by Colby Cosh on Friday, December 24, 2010 8:06am – 16500490
Much like “Juristâ€, I had to laugh at the headlines conjured up in the wake of the most interesting Wikileaks revelation so far concerning Canada. The Globe, summarizing the leaked minute of a private meeting between former Environment Minister Jim Prentice and U.S. Ambassador David Jacobson, says “[Prentice] threatened to impose new rules on oil sandsâ€. Okayyy, but it’s not really a threat if you make it only in the presence of a third party, is it? We’ve all met fake tough guys who are full of stories about how they really told so-and-so off, but who are really just imagining what they would have said if their spine weren’t made of marmalade. Similarly, the CBC has it “Prentice was ready to curb oilsandsâ€, mysteriously failing to add “…but he didn’t really get around to it, and then one day he just cleaned out his desk and left.â€