MONTREAL - The Quebec provincial police is investigating whether the firebombing of a car owned by petroleum industry spokesperson Carol Montreuil was a terrorist act. The car burst into flames Thursday around 3:15 a.m. in the driveway of Montreuil's home 30 kilometres north of Montreal in Lorraine, Que., according to police spokesperson Marc Butz. Montreuil is eastern Canada Division vice president of the Canadian Petroleum Products Institute.
The provincial police anti-terrorism unit is to analyze the charred shell of the car to determine what caused the explosion. "We don't know if it was a bomb or some technical malfunction," Butz said yesterday. "That could take several days, even weeks." However, Butz said the case may be linked to a December 2004 attack on a Hydro Quebec transmission tower in the Eastern Townships. A little-known group called the Initiative de resistance internationaliste claimed responsibility for both incidents in emails sent to some media outlets in 2004 and on Friday, he said.
On Sunday, the police seized computer files from the Journal de Montreal to trace an email the paper received, Butz said. The email blamed oil companies for holding consumers hostage while making big profits, damaging the environment and financing wars in places such as Iraq.
In June, Montreuil, vice-president of the Canada Petroleum Products Institute, which represents oil companies, said they intend to pass along the costs, and that the $200-million-a-year carbon tax will emerge in the form of 1.5-cent increase a litre in fuel.
I had forgotten that the Fools in the Canadian government had signed on to that idiotic Kyoto treaty. What a bunch of chumps. Did they think that the oil companies were going to pay for their stupidity?