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Joe Oliver: Yet more proof foreign radicals (yes, radicals) are sabotaging Canada’s economy/ a# V% r3 }' I* T/ ^4 b( I3 F
Special to Financial Post Joe Oliver ' t5 `/ p6 E( `$ YThe 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. + D( L4 [3 l1 q7 ~% y: V: q3 y 0 Z0 f( p& L! v0 gPerhaps 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.