Radical Environmentalist Becomes Minister of Envirinment in Trudeau's Government

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jesse-kline-guilbeaults-move-to-environment-shows-trudeau-plans-to-sacrifice-prosperity

 "...It is somewhat apropos that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his new cabinet less than a week after Alberta released its “Report of the Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns.” As detailed in that report, a central figure in the crusade to shut down oilsands development was Trudeau’s new environment minister, Steven Guilbeault, which exposes the prime minister’s past rhetoric about the need to strike a balance between the economy and the environment as meaningless.

Guilbeault has been involved in the environmental movement since the early 1990s, which, on first blush, may make him seem like a natural choice for environment minister. But unlike his predecessor, Jonathan Wilkinson, who had a background in green energy companies, Guilbeault was a radical environmentalist who has spent his career trying to shut down the oilsands and derail Canadian energy projects.

He is perhaps best known for scaling the CN Tower in 2001, while working for Greenpeace, and unfurling a banner reading, “Canada and Bush Climate Killers,” a stunt for which he was later convicted of public mischief..."