They've written letters to the government demanding that Ottawa stop a swarm of activist groups backed by
foreign billionaires from hijacking — as the prime minister himself put it — the hearings over the Canadian Northern Gateway pipeline that would carry our oil from Alberta to B.C. Canadians have been calling into radio shows and writing blogs, and spreading the
word in their communities
about the fact that this crucial decision over Canada's national energy
policy is being infiltrated by what are essentially the well - paid lobbyists of wealthy and powerful
foreign interests.
Reading the group's press releases it does seem that they even had a hand in getting the president of the United States to sic a taxpayer - funded agency on a
foreign academic study
about a
foreign country's experience with its own
policies, because said academic team and its writings threaten the welfare if the
word gets out.