‘This is not a partisan question in Alberta, there is a massive consensus from left to right … that this bill must be defeated,’ Kenney told the Senate panel
EDMONTON — Hours after being sworn in as the 18th premier of Alberta, Jason Kenney threatened a court battle against federal legislation to ban oil tanker traffic off the British Columbia coast, calling it an attack on Alberta.
Earlier, the panel heard from Don Scott, mayor of the municipality of Wood Buffalo — the heart of the oilsands — and Craig Makinaw, chief of the Ermineskin Cree Nation and other experts. Quebec Sen. Julie Miville-Dechên, who co-chairs the committee, called the differences between Indigenous views on petroleum industry development “extraordinary.”Alberta will not stand for this and I as premier will not stand for this
He also went back to several lines he used on the campaign trail, pointing to the war room and litigation fund he’s promised to use to go after opponents of the industry and wage legal battles alongside pro-resource First Nations. He claimed, too, that Bill C-48 was the direct result of the “foreign-funded” campaign against Alberta oil, a campaign chosen because activists don’t wish to go after foreign countries. “They identify Canada as the weakling,” he said.
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