A decade of lost opportunities with Liberals’ anti-oil and gas policies

Since 2015 when Justin Trudeau and a cadre of environmental ideologues took office, the federal government has pursued a climate change agenda at the expense of the country’s resource development and economic growth. In doing so Canadians have witnessed a decade of lost opportunities with the Liberals’ anti-oil and gas policies. Literally, hundreds of billions of dollars of investment and economic activity have been forsaken – intentionally.

To understand what has occurred with the Canada’s economy through the last ten years, one needs to appreciate that the Trudeau Liberals’ economic and energy strategies have been developed with global environmental goals in mind. The chief architect of the Liberals’ approach to the country’s economic growth and development is PM Trudeau’s former principal secretary Gerald Butts, an ardent environmental activist. Butts has been – and remains – a central driver of the Liberals’ green agenda, an agenda that has shaped the country’s economic and energy …