Even an economist with an environmental organization that spends much of its time criticizing Canada's oilsands sector acknowledges that it is a large part of the country's economy and shutting it down would be committing economic suicide. "If you look at the economy of Canada, the oilsands has been, and will continue to be, a major component of the economy," says Dave Sawyer, an economist with Winnipeg-based environmental consultants EnviroEconomics and a past vice-president of the International Institute for Sustainable Development. "No government will put a cap on oilsands production."
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