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Yet Canada’s oil and pipeline industry, and democracy, have already been greatly damaged by Russians, Americans, and others for years. And such attacks, for political reasons, were ignored.

In 2015, a report showed how foreign money poured in to help the Liberals and anti-oil forces but nothing changed.

Then in 2017, it was obvious that social media and foreign vested interests contributed to the electoral victory in B.C. by the anti-oil NDP and Green Parties.

The NDP and Greens — and now the Liberals with two disastrous pieces of legislation aimed against Alberta oil — march alongside the damaging “Tar Sands Campaign” south of the border that aims to strand Canada’s most valuable resource assets.

So far, their efforts have cost all Canadians. The $36-billion Malaysia LNG project in B.C. was cancelled, TransCanada Corp.’s Energy East west-east pipeline has been blocked, and the Trans Mountain expansion to the Pacific has been stalled for years.

Canadian oil has been on Russian, Venezuelan, and Saudi radar screens for years because Alberta’s increasing production levels threatened their markets and prices. As far back as 2011, I exposed a primitive scheme involving the attempted blockage of deliveries by trucks of gigantic oilsands equipment on its way through Montana to Alberta. A U.S. official revealed that letters and lobbying in Montana originated out of Russia, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing jurisdictions.