Anti-Canada petroleum movement, or Canadian anti-petroleum movement? This doesn't seem like an accidental word re-arrangement.
There is a large portion of the federal government that have tied up Canadian economic interests in the tar sands. Entire regions of the central provinces are literally propped up on tar sands extraction. Take that away and you'll have swaths of blue-collar workers with mortgages, debts, and families and no income. They will probably be pretty mad.
Any group that harms tar sands extraction operations harms Canadian citizens... I can see the logic there.
The scary thing is the wider implications of C51 and that it hasn't been voted out, just tabled. This sort of thing winds up being buried in another bill with more obscure language around it when everyone has moved on.
My Pediatrician made a particularly profound statement to me when I was trying to get my first child to sleep through the night and it applies when you're considering industry:
Pay now or pay later, but one way or another you will pay. It might seem hard now, but the longer you leave it, the worse it's going to be.
Could divesting of oil stocks be considered tantamount to terrorism going forward?
There is a lot of money to be lost for other counties should the US and Canada develop their resources to their fullest and unlike many other current oil producers there is the ability to exploit freedom expression and movement to limit this expansion of resource development.
The Canadian oil sands are vast, but take a relatively large amount of energy to process into usable fuel. As such, Canada is particularly unpopular among some groups.
FYI for any Americans reading this, when a bill is tabled in Canada, it means the opposite of what you think it does, the bill is put forward for discussion rather than suspending discussion indefinitely.
Anti-Canada activity if you do, anti-Canada activity if you don't.
I smell a Canadexploitation ripoff of James Bond...
Sweet, sweet irony.
Pretty sure that is a bigger threat to them than protesters.
When exactly did the US and Canada turn into primary exporters of expensive oil, crazy times.
