State-Owned Tar Sands?

For the record, I don’t think anyone should be making money from the Tar Sands because, quite simply, there’s no true-cost economic rationale to actually allow the Tar Sands to exist.  The Tar Sands represent the ultimate in greed and ultimate in mortgaging the environmental (and subsequent economic) future of the entire planet.

However, I have a question:  if a state-owned oil company from China can buy into and profit from the Tar Sands,why is it that Canada cannot have a state-owned company that buys into and profits from the Tar Sands?

I mean, if someone’s making a shit-pile of cash off this monstrosity, can’t it at least be us?

This goes under the file of ‘un-f-in-believable’.