Maybe Ottawa's harsh crackdown on oil and gas infomercials will finally make the industry realize appeasing activists has been a mistake

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If the Canadian oil and gas industry has not yet realized it is at war with the current federal government, enactment into law of Bill C-59 last month should open its eyes.

The bill makes significant amendments to the Competition Act, with an eye towards combating so-called “greenwashing,” which Merriam-Webster defines as the practice of “making a product, policy, activity, etc. appear to be more environmentally friendly or less environmentally damaging than it really is.”

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Bill C-59, which should really be called the “Oil & gas company cancellation act,” stipulates that any claims that citizens, advocates, organizations, or businesses make about the environmental benefits of a product or technology must be proven, by the measure of international standards so nebulous as not even to be defined. It is not clear which international standards companies need to measure themselves against or by whom outside of Canada they........

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