A new phrase has insinuated itself into Conservative talking points -- it tripped lightly from the lips of new junior finance minister Ted Menzies this week -- and will no doubt soon be adopted by the larger political culture: job creators. As in: goodbye corporate fat cats, hello job creators.
Levant...has helped popularize the argument that oil-sands petroleum is ethically superior to petroleum produced by countries such as Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Iran – all nations that also sell crude to the U.S. market or Asian markets. It’s an attempt to beat back efforts by U.S. politicians and activists who want a boycott of Canada’s oil sands owing to its greenhouse-gas-heavy extraction methods and ensuing environmental damage. - hence, ethical oil.
Think of the money the government saves. No action needed, just re-label problems as benefits.
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That is just good marketing. Mind you ethical oil is more of an oxymoron isn't it? Kinda like an honest lawyer or an unbiased partisan, or a philanthropic businessman. Ethical oil is impossible, but if a whole population can be sold on the idea of selective genocid then this should be an easy sell.
Ethical oil = Canadian equivalent of clean coal.
What of those "job creators" who close down plants here in order to set up shop wherever cheap labour is available? Are they "development humanitarians"? Kind of similar to those supporting pre-emptive wars as being "human rights crusaders".
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