Minister in charge of energy couldn\u0027t be bothered to drive across town to attend major international meeting on a file he\u0027s in charge of.
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This isn’t an imaginary scenario, the minister who did this is Jonathan Wilkinson, Justin Trudeau’s minister of natural resources.Wilkinson was a no show at LNG2023 last week despite several attempts to invite him and other senior government leaders. In place of Wilkinson, the world’s leading figure from both the business and government side of the liquified natural gas industry heard from Edmonton MP Randy Boissonnault, Trudeau’s tourism minister.
It’s not that Wilkinson would have had to go far, his constituency office is only about 30 minutes away from where the conference was held, it’s just that Wilkinson was too busy — there were scheduling conflicts. “Unfortunately, there are a couple of domestic and international events that are in conflict with our event,” LNG2023 Executive DirectorKey among those domestic events keeping Wilkinson away was his need to campaign for Elliott Weinstein, the Liberal candidate in the Calgary Heritage riding currently in the middle of a byelection.
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