Canada, while not perfect, has robust human rights protections and high environmental standards. It is also a magnet for immigrants (including tens of thousands of Venezuelans), having one of the highest shares of its population born elsewhere in any country in the world.
In 2021, Biden was happy to offend one of America’s closest allies by blocking KXL because it was inconsistent “with my administration’s economic and climate imperatives.” Two short years later, behind the fig leaf of Venezuelan electoral reform, he is welcoming much more environmentally damaging oil from one of Latin America’s most odious regimes, all to try and keep the price down at the pump.
That’s a big win for Maduro, but a bad deal for America and Canada.
[He’s dealing with Maduro for two reasons. One, Biden’s desperate to boost inventory of oil so that he can avoid having to allow more exploration and extraction in the US. Two, Maduro is still the darling of the progressive Left … which is covering itself in glory at the moment by praising Hamas’ genocidal attacks on Jews. Biden probably figures he needs to throw them a bone while scolding the Left over its anti-Semitism. — Ed]
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