ethical oil - Simpson = Globe and Mail Jan 11/12

I looked at Simpson's article and was not impressed. Firstly, he is always anti-Harper and takes
any chance he has to criticize him. However that is not the immediate question. Is he right? For a long
time Harper has been pushing ethical Canadian oil as opposed to Saudi unethical oil. I support that. As Simpson
says (in his holier than thou position) the Harper government did try to influence the U.S. government to
buy its products. It will do the same thing with China next month. That is a long way away from other governments,
in particular Saudi Arabia and perhaps Soros, funding U.S. and Canadian environmental groups to try to prohibit
the production and sale of Canadian oil in any way possible including by lengthening the American and
Canadian judicial processes of environmental review . So yes, Simpson can complain that Harper's sales efforts
are too strong but theyare not equivalent to financial support to our environmental groups by unknown financial sources.

So no, I don't think that "Foreign money' is a hypocritical diversion. I think it is a realistic problem and
I am glad that Harper is facing and combatting it because I don't want to see a five year assessment that
would essentially destroy Canada's benefit from the oil sands while allowing the Saudis to earn millions
of dollars to support the ideology of jihad and Islamism throughout the world.