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oil sands

Canada and Saudi Arabia stood out as the most prolific amongst their economic peers.
Alberta's bitumen can be used to produce carbon fibre for electric vehicles, Little points out.
Liberals are concerned the $20-billion project would undermine a pledge to be net zero by 2050.
Many Canadian oil industry players had pinned their hopes on a Conservative victory.
Meanwhile, Canadian taxpayers could be saddled with a larger budget deficit, IEEFA predicts.
The multibillion-dollar question: where does our economic future lie?
Apparently, American environmentalists have put huge areas of Canada off-limits to development as de facto trade barriers that enforce a U.S. monopoly on our exports, while at the same time as they want to drop our exports to the U.S. to zero. Or something. This supposed scandal has been hiding in plain sight for almost a decade, and almost none of the key facts holds up to scrutiny. A veritable cottage industry has grown up promoting one of the most politically convenient conspiracy theories in recent memory.