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Canada: Tar Sands Campaigners are Terrorists; Canadian Academics Offer Their Own Climate Policy
Tar Sands Campaigners Are Canada’s New ‘Terrorists’. Canada’s Harper régime has invented the new crime of being a member of an ‘anti-Canadian petroleum movement’, and equating such a stance with terrorism. A secret report prepared by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police claims that public activism against the problems caused by oil and gas extraction is a growing and violent threat to Canada’s national security. The report goes so far as to challenge the very idea that human activity is causing global warming or that global warming is even a problem.
Feeling ignored by government, Canadian academics offer their own climate policy. Under the conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Canada has become a tough and frustrating political environment for researchers trying to advance evidence-based policies to reduce emissions.
