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The manipulative green tail of Canadian politics is now wagging the economic dog

It seems to be working. Through more than a decade of gross disinformation, quasi-illegal activity and backroom political campaigns funded by Americans, the manipulative green tail of Canadian politics is now wagging the Canadian economic dog.

Wake up to the fact that tiny minorities of fringe activists now populate key power bases in Ottawa and the provinces. Most party politicians, from the prime minister to premiers to energy and environment ministers, have become puppets of green activists.

Driven by their quaisi-religious belief in the wrath of climate change, the green machine had its road to power paved by funders, mostly from the United States, whose sole objective was to destroy Alberta’s oilsands. From that starting point they have expanded their power and funding base.

Nobody has done more to document the underground rise to dominance of the green subversion of Canadian politics than Vivian Krause, the Vancouver researcher and writer whose blog is a storehouse of documented evidence on how activists used climate change apocalysm to seize control over oilsands and other policy areas. Her latest effort, “The Tar Sands Campaign Against the Overseas Export of Canadian Oil: Activism or Economic Sabotage?”, was posted last month.

It’s impossible in a brief column to capture more than a glimpse into the origins and workings of the green takeover of Canadian politics and their role in subjugating the oilsands and Canada’s energy sector. But here’s a peek at just one element.