This is so silly. British Columbia takes in half a billion in taxes a year from their own oil exploitation. Canada as a whole takes in about 80 billion in tax

This is so silly. British Columbia takes in half a billion in taxes a year from their own oil exploitation. Canada as a whole takes in about 80 billion in tax revenue from oil and gas extraction. This isn't just a money maker for oil companies, it's a money maker for the Canadian government. The petition here is for the government to set aside citizen's money so that the government can sue oil companies? The same government that gives the oil companies their leases to extract oil and is a huge benefactor of taxes from said industry? Even if you believed this was not just a special interest group asking for a government to set aside money for special interest groups - Canada only has 38 million people. $1 per person is only $38 million. There are already plenty of climate activist organizations that have way more than this. If that's all it would take to successfully sue oil companies, it can already be done.