Brian McLeod (Gazette, Jan. 21) must have got up on the wrong side of the bed the day that he wrote his column “Prime minister is not serving Canadians” for him to pour such vitriol on the prime minister for making the comment that we needed to carefully manage how to phase out Alberta’s oilsands industry.
He goes on to say that this is an industry that generates hundreds of thousands of good paying jobs, and puts money into provincial and federal coffers. The prime minister is right; the industry will be phased out, but not today, or tomorrow, or even next week, as the prime minister has also said. It may not even happen in the prime minister’s lifetime, or mine.
If actions speak louder than words, then the actions taken by Liberal government in approving two pipelines – Tran-Mountain and Line 3 – should prove otherwise. These pipelines are built with a 50-year lifespan. And from the beginning of its mandate in 2015, the Liberal government has shown its support for the Keystone pipeline, which received approval from President Donald Trump.
Does this speak of an early phase-out of the oilsands? That's the problem, Mr. McLeod, for seizing on a small part of a message and not looking into the full context.
Lucien Duigou, St. Albert
