Haultain Research President Marco Navarro-Genie spoke to The Epoch Times ahead of the meeting between Alberta’s minister of the environment and her federal counterpart. Stephen Guilbeault represents an ideologically radical anti-hydrocarbon culture in the federal cabinet. It is unlikely that he will compromise and accept the delay on emissions that Alberta is asking.

“It’s hard to imagine the country could be more divided than it is already,” MNG said, but added: “It has a significant potential for heating things up. And in making that gulf, that divide, a little bit wider.”