Foreign funded Canadian ‘grassroots’ enviros playing ‘hijack, undermine, kill’

With its talk about “foreigners” and “hijack”-ing and “kill”-ing, Joe Oliver’s open letter to foreign-funded anti-pipeline lobbyists is turning into the new “Rivers of Blood.”

That is, hyperbolic — and accurate.

The Left is pretending to be angry about the former, but they’re really pissed about the latter.

Anyway, here’s Ezra Levant’s take on the Left’s selective outrage:

Oliver said three main things about them: They’re bankrolled by foreigners; they’re radical; and they’re trying to rig the rules of the review panel.

Did the antis dispute the truth of his three essential claims?

(Antis are a good name for them. They’re anti-industry, anti-oil, anti-pipeline and anti-jobs. But selectively. They’ve never had an anti-tanker campaign opposing OPEC tankers bringing Saudi oil to eastern Canada. They’ve never had a protest against the pipeline that brings OPEC oil from a port in Maine up to Montreal. OPEC tankers even sail right up the St. Lawrence. The antis have never complained about that).

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Last weekend on CTV, Swanson was asked about the propriety of taking foreign money. His answer: “If I got dufflebags of money delivered from Martians from outer space I would still take that money.”

He’d take money from anyone to fight against a Canadian project ­ from any foreigner, even from aliens. He obviously can’t raise enough money from real Canadians. They don’t support him. But he has no pangs of disloyalty about going to foreigners.