The Liberal government is expected next week to finally fulfil a promise Canada made 14 years ago to end federal subsidies that aid in the production of fossil fuels.

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    This will be news when they’ve actually done it, and haven’t replaced it with the same thing under a different name.

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    The word “unabated” seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting in the announcement.

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    Good, as somebody who lives in Alberta, the sooner the oil industry is dead and gone from this province the better.

  • John
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    seems like it will continue to be slow-rolled. The Conservatives will promise to do both the same, and the opposite.

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      Why would they do that when the goal is to expand those things?

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      Why? Are they threatening the world’s climate too?

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        Nah. Just irrelevant in the next-fiscal scope of the current ephemeral Con leader’s buddies’ thinking, and therefore valueless, thus expendable.

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      Is this sarcasm ? I wonder what’s your thought process ?

      • MapleEngineer
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        Or something like that if I had to guess.