Oil sands on agenda for Obama's Canada visit: Harper
Published 1/14/2009 at Reuters: Politics
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's oil sands, a vast potential oil source that critics say comes at a big environmental cost, will be on the agenda when Barack Obama visits Canada on his first foreign trip as U.S. president, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Tuesday.
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