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Harper and the Big Oil Party of Canada

In Canada, the oil companies and the Harper government know that an oil spill catastrophe is coming. The precautionary principle, rooted in the notion of the common good and established on a foundation of science, has no place in the calculations of global capital.

Photograph courtesy of Jill Thompson, the Prime Minister’s Office
It’s about yeah big: Prime Minister Stephen Harper, pictured on Jan. 17 in Saguenay, Que., participating in an economic consultation with local small-business owners. Columnist Murray Dobbin argues that when global oil companies run your country, economic and environmental catastrophes are guaranteed.

 

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Harper and the Big Oil Party of Canada

In Canada, the oil companies and the Harper government know that an oil spill catastrophe is coming. The precautionary principle, rooted in the notion of the common good and established on a foundation of science, has no place in the calculations of global capital.

Photograph courtesy of Jill Thompson, the Prime Minister’s Office
It’s about yeah big: Prime Minister Stephen Harper, pictured on Jan. 17 in Saguenay, Que., participating in an economic consultation with local small-business owners. Columnist Murray Dobbin argues that when global oil companies run your country, economic and environmental catastrophes are guaranteed.

 

  

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