That's a complete and outright lie and you should be ashamed. Both eastern and western Canada have petitioned the Federal government for domestic refineries, but the Federal government is too concerned about its relationship with America to do that. They would rather transport the raw crude to the U.S. or China, and let your countrymen refine it, for the sake of
your jobs. This is about what the U.S. wants and it always has been. Canada extracts the dirty oil and suffers the environmental consequences, while the U.S. gets to employ its own to refine it, and then jack up the price so that oil industries can profit obscenely.
Secondly, the tar sands in Alberta are affecting everyone there. It's not a partisan issue. In the last Alberta election, Conservative constituents were asking the candidates how they intend to preserve Alberta's natural ecosystem while still maintaining the oil economy. Everyone is worried. In the beginning it was more partisan, but now that the harmful changes are so obvious, even Conservatives are beginning to wonder: