Opinion: Petro-nostalgia doesn’t do conservatives – or Canadians – any good

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Story continues below advertisementin Canada’s prairie provinces ahead of the federal election, ostensibly so that a Prime Minister Scheer could put the full weight of the federal government behind his vague “plan to protect the environment.”

Ultimately, most voters likely shrugged their shoulders when they heard the Conservative leader met with Alberta energy players behind closed doors; the party and some in Alberta’s energy industry have been at least loosely connected for decades. But forging such close ties with activist elements of the Alberta’s energy industry – while amplifying its nostalgic celebration of the “” and its wistfulness for the good times that came when Alberta’s economy cooked with oil and gas – could ultimately make Mr. Scheer’s proclaimed pledges, and his main ambition for the country’s top job, a lot tougher.

There are, no doubt, short-term power politics at play here – but there are also longer-term implications about how little gets asked of industry and individuals with respect to climate change by Conservative politicians, and how their key messages blend together – seemingly without recognition that the good old daysThe Conservatives’ daylong strategy meeting in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains was organized by the Modern Miracle Network, a pro-oil organization with...

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