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Conor Curtis - Sierra Club Canada email:
If Trump invades Greenland we can expect oil and gas interests 'based in Canada' to side with Trump and tell Canada to keep quiet. Oil tycoons in Canada are already apparently happy to help Trump develop oil in Venezuela and thus set the precedent we will help the U.S. violate international law. And will Venezuelans even get democracy out of it? Unlikely, Trump is looking to keep the old regime in Venezuela in place under the new leadership of Delcy Rodriguez who Trump and big oil replaced Nicolás Maduro with as acting president.
It also turns out "Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is part of a U.S. group whose leader, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, has been tasked by the Donald Trump administration with helping to annex Greenland" Desmog writes.
Coincidentally, the big oil-supporting Toronto Sun, whose Ottawa bureau chief recently praised the murder of Renee Good by ICE, just published a piece by Stephen LeDrew supporting Trump's Greenland annexation goal:
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If we don't cheer, Trump may take Newfoundland and Labrador instead the Sun's piece goes on to threaten. As a Newfoundlander myself I can say that threat isn't going to be received the way the Toronto Sun thinks.