Max Fawcett

"The refusal of large numbers of people to trade long-term benefits for short-term conveniences doesn’t augur well for our shared future," writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The Progressive Conservatives have made "conflicts of interest and favours for friends a key part of its governing brand."

Organizations like CAPP and the API are welcome to make this the hill they die on, of course. But there’s a growing army of people, many of them on Bay and Wall streets, who will be more than happy to put a sword through their hearts. It’s up to the companies that fund those organizations, both here in Canada and in the United States, to decide whether they want to die there with them or not.  

Perhaps the real reason for the Alberta government's "ruinously stupid" campaign is to deflect attention from the province's sorry economic state, writes Max Fawcett.