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Canada: Cap-and-trade policy won’t ‘hoover up western resources,’ says Ignatieff

Edmonton Journal: Any cap-and-trade program created by a potential Liberal government would not move Alberta resources to Eastern Canada, Michael Ignatieff promised at an Edmonton campaign stop Saturday. The Liberal leader said any climate change policy must be fair among the provinces. “You work with Alberta, you work with Saskatchewan, you work with resource-based provinces,” he said. “You can’t use a cap-and-trade system to hoover up western resources and transfer them down east. We will not do that. That’s...