The Tyee – An Open Reply to Joe Oliver’s Propaganda for the Petro State

Canada’s Natural Resource Minister Joe Oliver has just pulled a Hugo Chavez: he’s penned a formal and desperate attack on democracy and interfered in the nation’s allegedly impartial regulatory regime. And all for bitumen exports to China.

In the process the Tory panjandrum has unwittingly highlighted the nation’s dangerous descent from messy democracy to full blown petro state.

via The Tyee – An Open Reply to Joe Oliver’s Propaganda for the Petro State.