your economy is based on resource EXTRACTION!!!!! cutting down your ancient forests, strip mining with open pit mines, going after tar sands while tearing apart your boreal forests, which will never return, floating net pens destroying your fish runs, are hardly examples of 'environmentally responsible' acts. add to that a government you have put in place that is intent on silencing opposition voices, overturning ALL environmental protections and you have a country bound and determined to make big bucks by destroying your environment.
tar sands are corrosive. it is little wonder that pipe lines continue to fall apart. i can only hope that Obama tells you to keep your tar sands on your side of the border.