Gary Mason supporting the financial interests of the oil barons and the banks.  Not at all surprising.  He would probably lose his job at the Globe if he didn’t. 

The Arctic and Greenland icecaps are melting at an increasing rate of speed.  Global warming will bring incredibly expensive disasters to many parts of the world - from famines, droughts, flooding, agricultural failures, to flooding of cities, mass migration of people, and wars as migrants meet resistance.  The building of additional capacity to transport oil is simply criminal.

Although I am a long time investor ($100,000 book value) in tar sands companies, the Government should not have approved this pipeline.   The public interest in slowing down global warming, and preventing more environmental pollution and spills, must take precedence over the selfish financial interests of tar sands investors such as myself, and the political interests of "last century's politicians" like Trudeau and Notley.