The final report of a public inquiry into what the government of Alberta says is foreign funding of environmental groups opposed to oil and gas development was due on July 30, 2021.Friday was the deadline for a public inquiry into what the Alberta government says is foreign funding of environmental groups who want to curtail energy development – an investigation lauded by Premier Jason Kenney as principled but derided by critics as a buffoonishly sinister political witch hunt.
Kenney launched the inquiry in 2019, fulfilling a United Conservative election campaign promise. He accused Canadian environmental charities of accepting foreign funding in a co-ordinated attempt to hinder energy infrastructure and landlock Alberta’s oil to benefit U.S. competitors. “They don’t want the disinfectant of transparency to come down on them. That’s why they went to court Thankfully, the Court of Queen’s Bench threw their case out.”
University of Calgary law professor Martin Olszynski said “anti-Alberta” is not an innocent term but a broad-based slur, easily weaponized by political opponents. He said it turns those concerned with the pace of resource development and its effect on the environment into scapegoats and depicts them as traitors to the community.
“We don’t even get to publicly defend ourselves or even see the evidence against us. says, `I interviewed 100 people.’ He won’t tell us who they were. How are we supposed to respond to evidence that we’re not allowed to see?”
When will Alberta wake up to the fact that foreign interests are running it and have been since oil royalty reductions were ushered in under the ‘trickle down’ neoliberal agenda of the mid 1980’s? It’s been a failure at many levels!
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