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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged actor Leonardo DiCaprio to tone down his criticisms of Canada’s oil and gas sector when the two met at a major economic summit in Switzerland this week.

An ardent environmentalist, DiCaprio was widely derided by Albertans last December after he described the province’s famous Chinook winds as “terrifying” evidence of climate change. The Chinooks are natural phenomena that carry warm air over the Rocky Mountains in the middle of winter.

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DiCaprio also travelled to Fort McMurray, Alta., in August 2014 to research an environmental documentary. And he starred in a video critical of the energy sector, in which he said, “They drill, they extract, making trillions of dollars. We must fight to keep this carbon in the ground.”

Most recently in Davos on Wednesday, DiCaprio used a major speech on climate change to rail against what he described as the “corporate greed” of the energy sector and called for an end to fossil-fuel use.