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Watching Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet trash Alberta on climate change and its greenhouse gas emissions is like watching a child running down the hallway with scissors.

The federal separatist leader (now there’s an oxymoron) revealed his ignorance last week when he lectured Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, and Albertans in general, on their land-locked oil resources.

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Taking virtue-signalling to a new high, Blanchet pontificated:

“If they were attempting to create a green state in Western Canada, I might be tempted to help them. If they are trying to create an oil state in Western Canada, they cannot expect any help from us.”

Oy. Where to begin?

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First, as Global News reported last year, Quebec gets most of its oil, 53%, from Western Canada, which the last time we checked included Alberta, compared to about 40% from the U.S. and 6% from Algeria.

A Leger poll last December found most Quebecers, 66%, approved of importing oil from Western Canada, compared to 7% who preferred the U.S., 3% Algeria and 1% each for Nigeria and the Mideast.