High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada`s Oil Sands is a book written by Canadian lawyer and political activist Ezra Levant, which makes a case for exploiting the Athabasca oil sands and its sister projects in Alberta. Published in 2010 by McClelland Stewart in Toronto, Canada, the book became a non-fiction best seller and won the National Business Book Award for 2011.