Given that it is a government with a well-known contempt for openness and democracy, the Harper regime rarely shocks me anymore. Its vilification campaigns of those with opposing views, its use of government power to muzzle the voice of science, its almost demonic obsession with resource extraction at any cost has left me pretty much inured to any emotional reaction other than disgust.
Yet even I was both shocked and appalled at what I learned reading The Toronto Star’s editorial this morning.
The headline tells it all: Drilling for oil in the Gulf of St. Lawrence without a clue:
within the more than 400 pages of this spring’s federal omnibus budget bill is an invitation for resource companies to open a new frontier in Canadian oil: the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
The gulf, which touches the coastlines of Canada’s five easternmost provinces, is the world’s largest . . . → Read More: Politics and its Discontents: Another Unpleasant Fact of Omnibus Bill C-38 Revealed