As the oil sands MP, Tory Brian Jean’s ‘got a real challenge’

'There has to be government intervention and working with industry to find people who are trained, first of all, but also to find them places to live and eat and sleep. It's not working right now,' Brian Jean said in 2004

With the environment now considered one of the top issues facing the country, Conservative MP Brian Jean is facing increasingly competing interests in his high-profile riding of Fort McMurray-Athabasca, where the the negative impacts of the oil sands boom are turning local opinion against expandi...

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