On Wednesday, Elizabeth May, the Green party’s parliamentary leader, stated that, “Oil is dead,” and argued that, “The pandemic, in a very real way, as horrific as this is at many, many levels, gives us an opportunity to stop and think about how we get this economy back on its feet.”
Leaders in Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, China, Russia and Norway must have been shocked to hear the news. Imagine waking up on the other side of the world and hearing that the leader of a small Canadian political party declared that your energy industry is dead. I don’t know how to say “Elizabeth May has told us our oil industry is no more” in Norwegian, but I bet it sounds very sad.--
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