By Jason Fekete, Ottawa Citizen, January 30, 2015
The current chairman of the council of Canadian premiers took a few verbal
slapshots at Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Friday for not attending the
group’s winter meeting in Ottawa. The country’s provincial and territorial
leaders – minus two prominent western premiers from oil-producing provinces –
gathered in downtown Ottawa for talks centred largely on the economy, including
the need for federal investment on infrastructure, crashing crude prices and the
TransCanada Energy East oilsands pipeline project. (...) A group of
environmental and civil society groups held a protest outside the hotel where
the premiers were meeting to highlight their concerns about Energy East’s impact
on climate change, what they call the “elephant in the room.” The groups
inflated a giant white elephant outside the hotel. via
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