At the time, the Stephen Harper government had also pledged to regulate emissions in the oil and gas sector. The industry and the provincial government in Alberta are still waiting for those regulations, first promised in October 2006.How many years need to go by, you might ask, before an unfulfilled promise is nothing more than misleading rhetoric? As far back as 2007, about the same time as those cap and trade premiers were meeting in Moncton, the prime minister said climate change was perhaps the biggest threat to confront the future of humanity today.Yet in early June of this year, Harper insisted, No country is going to undertake actions on climate change, no matter what they say ... that is going to deliberately destroy jobs and growth in their country. How do we square that one? Meanwhile, Alberta will continue to grow and make its substantial contributions to federal coffers. New numbers this week show the provincial population grew by three times the national average in 2013, a growth rate not seen since the 1980s. cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/the-fragile-power-of-alberta-s-golden-goose-economy-1.2694627
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