Al says "Harper ... has a pro-oil agenda"

[hoosier]

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/...57c12e&k=27679

Gore accuses big oil of bankrolling Tories

Election laws only allow $1,000 corporate donations

"The election in Canada was partly about the tar sands projects in Alberta," said former U.S. vice-president Al Gore.

Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore has accused the oil industry of financially backing the Tories and their "ultra-conservative leader" to protect its stake in Alberta's lucrative oilsands.



Canadians, Gore said, should vigilantly keep watch over prime minister-designate Stephen Harper because he has a pro-oil agenda and wants to pull out of the Kyoto accord -- an international agreement to combat climate change.



"The election in Canada was partly about the tar sands projects in Alberta," Gore said Wednesday while attending the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.



"And the financial interests behind the tar sands project poured a lot of money and support behind an ultra-conservative lead ...

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In response, Canada said, "This strange man seems lost. I think he's yours. Please take him home and make sure he stays there."

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[RACooper]

Big Oil back the Conservatives out of Alberta?!?!?.... shocking... and in other news it was revealed that the Earth isn't flat....


I'm not really all that worried about his "oil agenda".... thats way on the back burner in comparison to his social-conservative agenda...

Despite campaign promises that same-sex marriage wasn't on the agenda... guess what the first order of business for the Cabinet and House of Commons is?

But then again what do you expect from a guy that in the run-up to the 2000 election called good'ol G.W. a "failed hedonist who plays at having found Christ"

[Optimist Prime]

Born again types crack me up, they are holy and everyone else, even in another church, is competly and unforgivably dammned. Such hypocrites.

[hoosier]

Our Friend Al Gore
The man who came within a hair's breadth of the presidency in 2000 is denouncing his own government on foreign soil, the Associated Press reports:

Former Vice President Al Gore told a mainly Saudi audience on Sunday that the U.S. government committed "terrible abuses" against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment.

Gore said Arabs had been "indiscriminately rounded up" and held in "unforgivable" conditions. The former vice president said the Bush administration was playing into al-Qaida's hands by routinely blocking Saudi visa applications.

"The thoughtless way in which visas are now handled, that is a mistake," Gore said during the Jiddah Economic Forum. "The worst thing we can possibly do is to cut off the channels of friendship and mutual understanding between Saudi Arabia and the United States."

There is a comical element to this, as Glenn Reynolds notes: "Only Al Gore could come up with the idea of criticizing Bush for not sucking up to the Saudis enough. Sigh."

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