NDP leader Thomas Mulcair is touting the benefits of Canada’s “important” oil resources, but he said the federal government needs to work hard on supporting spinoff jobs and ensuring proper environmental protection.
In a radio interview Saturday, Mulcair suggested that efforts to add new refining jobs in Canada would become a “win-win” situation for the oilsands industry and the rest of the country.
“But I think that overall, the idea of adding the value in Canada, developing, upgrading, processing, refining, our own natural resources is a good one,” Mulcair told the CBC’s weekly politics show, The House.
“That’s what we should be working on together.”
Mulcair made the comments after a British Columbia newspaper publisher, David Black, pitched a proposal to build a $13-billion refinery near Kitimat, B.C., to process the heavy oil from Alberta that would be shipped through the Northern Gateway pipeline proposed by Enbridge.
Read more: Mulcair touts oilsands as
Neckbeard has spoken.
In a radio interview Saturday, Mulcair suggested that efforts to add new refining jobs in Canada would become a “win-win” situation for the oilsands industry and the rest of the country.
“But I think that overall, the idea of adding the value in Canada, developing, upgrading, processing, refining, our own natural resources is a good one,” Mulcair told the CBC’s weekly politics show, The House.
“That’s what we should be working on together.”
Mulcair made the comments after a British Columbia newspaper publisher, David Black, pitched a proposal to build a $13-billion refinery near Kitimat, B.C., to process the heavy oil from Alberta that would be shipped through the Northern Gateway pipeline proposed by Enbridge.
Read more: Mulcair touts oilsands as
Neckbeard has spoken.