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wow, is she ever dumb.

On the contrary, she parried their objections, obfuscated, and steered the discussion quite well. >> ^kir_mokum:

wow, is she ever dumb.

For those who care, Christie Clark (Premier of BC) has a new chief of staff. An Enbridge lobbyist.

If she is still in office when the decision is made, the outcome of the hearings is irrelevant. She will greenlight the project.

if repeating the same nonsensical slogan over and over again is "parrying objections" then i'm an intellectual juggernaut. she didn't "steer" the conversation, she put the parking brake on. it was like watching hitchens trying to convince a five year old to put her boots on. she might as well have resorted to saying things like "nuh-ugh", "i don't wanna", "whyyyyyyyy?", and "do we have to?".
>> ^longde:

On the contrary, she parried their objections, obfuscated, and steered the discussion quite well.

The $5.5-billion Enbridge pipeline project is all about sending Alberta bitumen in huge oil tankers to China. Beijing’s own state enterprises are among the project’s major backers, and Beijing has been buying up Alberta’s oilpatch at such a dizzying pace lately it’s hard to keep up. In the spring of 2010, China’s state-owned Sinopec Corp. took a $4.65-billion piece of Syncrude. Then the China Investment Corporation, which is run by the Chinese Communist Party, took possession of a $1.25-billon share of Penn West Petroleum. Last summer, the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation gobbled up Opti Canada for $2.34 billion. And so on.

Then, last month, Sinopec spent $2.2-billion to take over Daylight Energy Ltd., and last week, Petro-China, with the final push of $1.9 billion, became the owner and manager of the MacKay River oilsands project. This is what Ottawa doesn’t want you noticing.

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It turns out that two can play this sort of game. B.C.’s environmentalists are now making great sport of it, pointing out that Ottawa’s “ethical oil” branding exercise was begun by Conservative party gadfly Ezra Levant, who was succeeded at the Ethical Oil institute by none other than the otherwise intelligent Alykhan Velshi, who parked himself there between his term with Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and his new job in Stephen Harper’s office. Bonus points: Ethical Oil dial-a-quote Kathryn Marshall is married to Hamish Marshall, Harper’s former strategic planning manager.

While it’s all good fun to play Spot the Freemason, something very serious is going on here. Last summer, John Bruk, the Asia Pacific Foundation’s founding president, warned that Ottawa was ignoring the rapid emergence of Chinese government interests “in sheep’s clothing” taking over Canada’s natural resource industries. Bruk told B.C. Business magazine: “Are we jeopardizing prosperity for our children and grandchildren while putting at risk our economic independence? In my view, this is exactly what is happening.”

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/story_print.html?id=5981230&sponsor

>> ^Drachen_Jager:

For those who care, Christie Clark (Premier of BC) has a new chief of staff. An Enbridge lobbyist.
If she is still in office when the decision is made, the outcome of the hearings is irrelevant. She will greenlight the project.


Tragic. The Government of BC, bought and paid for by the same people who purchased Stephen Harper back in 2004.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-politics/clarks-new-chief-of-staff-advised-harper-lobbied-for-enbridge/article2301027
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"She always had her eyes closed when she was talking about “money” "

Exactly, that's her job. Question gets asked, she doesn't want to answer so she ignores it and says "what this is really about is..."

Media handling 101. Admittedly it doesn't come off too well here though, hard to dodge a simple and direct question...

>> ^kir_mokum:
she didn't "steer" the conversation, she put the parking brake on.

Kathryn Marshall is married to Harper’s former manager of strategic planning.

And WHY are the good guys always so soft spoken? NOTE she won't just say "No, Enbridge doesn't fund us." This is because they do.

Has anyone else noticed that the more a group's story is bullshit, the more likely it is to hire an attractive young woman to tell it? See: Fox News.

>> ^Peroxide:

Kathryn Marshall is married to Harper’s former manager of strategic planning.


Can you cite this? I'm really interested.

we are ever so clever

>> ^Peroxide:

NOTE she won't just say "No, Enbridge doesn't fund us." This is because they do.

About Kathryn Marshall -- married to Harper's former strategic planning manager: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/canada-in-afghanistan/real+foreign+interests+oilsands/5982437/story.html (see paragraph 13).

Let's compare her salary/contract value to John Bennett's modest earnings as executive director of Sierra Club -- who is making a killing here?

This.

I think a stronger host or adversary could have tripped her up. Chris Matthews would have had her for lunch. >> ^Mammaltron:

Exactly, that's her job. Question gets asked, she doesn't want to answer so she ignores it and says "what this is really about is..."
Media handling 101. Admittedly it doesn't come off too well here though, hard to dodge a simple and direct question...
>> ^kir_mokum:
she didn't "steer" the conversation, she put the parking brake on.

Ethical Oil mouthpiece Katheryn Marshall tells the truth:

"Foreign special interests and foreign groups and foreigners and their puppet groups who have no stake in Canada's economy [are] trying to manipulate and interfere in a Canadian process and that's wrong."

(She's just lying about who's is doing the interfering.)

I bet she slept great that night.

If i was the presenter - i don't care if i'd have been cut off, fired, or fucked in the ass - i'd have said "I'm giving you an opportunity to state that you are not funded by them - if you avoid the question you're clearly funding them. If you're not, please deny it - otherwise, i and the viewers at home will conclude that you are."

I'd have fucking shouted it to get it heard if necessary. Her mind is like a gaping void. Did they just get a porn actress to learn 20 phrases and repeat them as necessary, hoping her face would distract the population of men out there?

This is everything that is wrong with politics, debate, etc. nowadays. For me, this doesn't highlight how terrible she is and how underhanded the whole thing is. What this shows is how systemic the rot is.

Shows right-wing tactics are everywhere. By claiming a conspiracy that foreign puppet groups are hijacking the Canadian process she then goes on to claim that her non-profit being funded by pipeline is a conspiracy theory. The same manner in which the government and right-wingers dismiss leftist groups who claim being infiltrated by provocateurs as "nutty" and "conspiracy; when it happens all the time.

She doesn't even seem serious - she laughs and recites the same three lines that were bold and underlined in her pre-interview hot-sheet. It's like arguing with a fundamentalist.

>> ^therealblankman:

>> ^Peroxide:
Kathryn Marshall is married to Harper’s former manager of strategic planning.

Can you cite this? I'm really interested.


http://www.vancouverobserver.com/politics/2012/01/09/ndp-mp-nathan-cullen-slams-harper%E2%80%99s-witch-hunt-environmental-charities

Female version of Oreilly. Seen a number of his interviews go that way, especially when it was Jon Stewart on. Repeat...repeat..deny deny, repeat, deny. Accuse, repeat, deny

I HATE THE WAY CANADIANS SAY "ABOUT!" Let's talk aboot something else. Let's redirect instead of answering a simple question, what do you say aboot that?

>> ^ForgedReality:

I HATE THE WAY CANADIANS SAY "ABOUT!" Let's talk aboot something else. Let's redirect instead of answering a simple question, what do you say aboot that?


I hate how jackass' like you are compelled to create sentences.

I demand we give this woman a turing test.

I think she blinked "TORTURE" in Morse code!