With the TransCanada debacle now creeping into the headlines, almost exclusively because of the US protests, the word 'Canada' is being batted around like a football. It's being kicked and abused with no end in sight. That is, until US president Obama makes the decision to go ahead or deny.
This is the type of damage we can expect for the duration of the Harper reign Canada is becoming a dirty word. It's the tar that is dirty. It is not Canada. It is the Conservatives, Alberta and TransCanada. But it is us, Canadians, who will bear the wrath of the world for what Harper is doing to us. The TransCanada fiasco is just the beginning. The Conservatives have a lot dirty work up their sleeves. And that damage will last far longer than most Canadians know.
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Harper is quoted in the link above as saying
"there is no better, safer, and more environmentally sound source of energy than Canada"
How would he know? As the Environment Commissioner recently concluded, the monitoring of the environmental impact of the Tar Sands has been woefully inadequate and many projects have been approved despite lack of information on their environmental impact.
Maybe we can say it's not Canada that is dirty, it's the Conservatives and TransCanada, but if this pipeline is approved, and when, not if, Tar Sands bitumen is spilled into the water table of Nebraska farmland, I am going to feel damned ashamed as a Canadian. Sure the pipeline will create jobs, but the jobs of the people who farm that land, don't they count?
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