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Phillips also co-authored a book with Greenpeace mouthpiece Mike Hudema, entitled: An Action a Day Keeps Global Capitalism Away. Seriously. You can’t make this stuff up! In the 2004 book’s preface, Hudema wrote: “It would not have been possible to put this book together without her. She pushed me to write it, edited my work, and contributed to its content. I owe her a heavy debt.”

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Phillips, in heavy damage control mode, says she just “moved some commas around.” Oh sure. No author says someone contributed to a book’s content if that didn’t occur.

Sadly, when it comes to Phillips, I could go on and on, but NDP ministers with even more important portfolios than hers have similar views.

Oates’ statement also said: “(Berman’s) upcoming speech has no bearing on the curriculum work being overseen by Minister (David) Eggen and he will continue to engage more reasonable experts on various subject areas while working to finalize the K-4 curriculum by the end of the year.”

Here’s hoping Notley’s office is right. One YouTube video shows Eggen, then the executive director of the Friends of Medicare, opposing “new approvals” of projects in Alberta’s oilsands.

“There’s plenty of responsible, good Albertans that do oppose new approvals for the tarsands,” he said, going on to lead a sparse crowd on the legislature steps in a chant of “No new approvals.”

In another YouTube video, Eggen called the oilsands “a catastrophe” that is “poisoning the land, poisoning the water and killing the people.” This fella is in charge of the curriculum in Alberta? A good chunk of the billions spent on Alberta education comes from the oil patch and he’s claiming that it’s killing people rather than helping to educate them and heal them in our oil-fuelled healthcare system. It’s alarming.