O Canada!
Our home and wasted land!
True populist love in all thy folks command.
With angry hearts we see thee fail!
The Bitumen North bane and bond
From near and narrow,
O Canada, we stand no guard for all.
Tar keep our land vainglorious and thrall!
O Canada, we stand no guard for all.
O Canada, we stand no guard for all.
~ From a reader, writing in response to Alberta's reception of Neil Young's comments about the tar sands being a wasteland.
Neil Young, speaking at the U.S. National Farmers Union conference in Washington on Monday:
“Yeah it’s going to put a lot of people to work, I’ve heard that, and I’ve seen a lot of people that would dig a hole that’s so deep that they couldn’t get out of it, and that’s a job too, and I think that’s the jobs that we are talking about there with the Keystone pipeline.”.
