Editorial: A far-sighted decision on Anticosti

Cleaning up other people’s messes tends to be a thankless task. All the more reason, then, that it’s worth expressing gratitude for the Couillard government’s decision, announced Friday, to close Anticosti Island to oil and gas exploration.
The mess it is cleaning up was left by the Parti Québécois. Not long before the April 2014 election in which it went down to defeat, the Marois government signed a deal with several energy companies to allow them to explore for