National Post- Two cross-country pipelines could’ve diverted $38.4 billion from the U.S., new study finds
The tariff war with the United States could have been very different if Canada had decided to build the Energy East and LNG Quebec pipelines over the past decade, according to a new study by the Montreal Economic Institute.
In 2023, Canada exported 97 per cent of its crude oil to the United States.
The Power of Positive Thinking.
Build infrastructure, not to enhance your own prosperity, but only to screw your neighbor.
Actually no, your customer base. When you have only one customer, no matter how fat and happy, you are at significant risk.
True. But that’s NOT the reason being cited in the article. Roaddog is 100% correct … as always.
Tell us something we don’t know.
Clearly “we know it” … but I wouldn’t say that the massive clot of #Librano voters know this. And the voters vastly outnumber the workers in Canada. They’d like to spite the Americans, but don’t have the means too as they could if we had a couple of pipelines to the coasts.
*sigh…
The only difference is Trump would use different make believe numbers to justify tariffs.
Allan, you are being deliberately obtuse. If you have other markets, tariffs will suck, but a lot less than when you have no choice. TDS is a poor substitute for logic and reasoning.
And how would having a pipeline change the overall tariff picture?
It wouldn’t even be a drop in the bucket.
“make believe numbers”?? … cognitive dissonance is a permanent malignancy in the leftist mind.
A “snap election.” Beyond laughable. Cue up for a Kamala collectivist show, with I predict similar results.
The NDP, despite their incomparably incompetent leader, won’t just let the Grits take half their present seats.
With Marx Carnage and his connections to net-zero slush funding revealed, Conservative will recover votes.
Carnage’s irreconcilable claim you can have solar and wind net zero and be prosperous is demonstrably phony.
Stealing the Conservatives energy plank, yet another Liberal promise to be broken, is an easy kill for Poilievre.
CBC has some nasty spin to do, hopefully outed as double dealing for their taxpayer increased larcenous largesse.
Carney (and Singh, BC’s fascist Eby) must be revealed for who they are, phony political power parasites.
Telling us transactions of decline of bigger government, contradictory energy policies and yet another lie about a “few years of deficits” make Carney and the Liberals any different from the current collectivist cabal of Grit grifters.
No doubt the Liberals and the mediocracy buddies will use every totalitarian trick in the book, with epic displays of demented, despotic and dishonest dystopia to convince us killing off industry makes us better off, with their Trump card now removed by the Donald with his nonetheless ill-considered in in poor taste comments about Pierre Poilievre, the Liberals, Carney and our election. The debates, should they happen, will mean more dystopic drama.
Let the games begin.
Don’t, for a minute, think the US wasn’t working to block Canadian pipelines. By funding indigenous and environmental protesters organizations such as Tides worked hard to keep our oil in the ground or only moving on rail (Warren Buffet owned rail?). The purpose was twofold: to keep our oil out of China’s hands and to keep the price paid by our only client, the US, extremely low.
Americans are not our buddies. They expect us to act like adults and understand how business is done.
Claiming commonality of purpose between Tides and working class Americans is absurd. Everything Tides does is intended to disenfranchise and impoverish working class Americans.
Fcked up the ass by K-bec again.
Quelle surprise.
The French/Quebec connection on blocking energy from Alberta is about Trudeau/Chretien LPC/Quebecois et al investment in TotalEnergies, a French international super conglomerate.
Much of the oil and gas comes from Africa and probably also Russia.
Yes, Americans block the harvesting of Alberta’s resources, but these petty hurdles could be easily swept away by the federal government if the will was there to do so.
Just this week, Premiere Danielle Smith inked a deal with Japan for export of our LNG.
These absurd generalizations about “Americans” are ridiculous. If, at this moment, you cannot discern the huge difference between liberal Democrat Americans and working class conservatives, it’s time for a trip to the optometrist.
I read years ago that the QPP was at the time heavily invested in Saudi oil, not Alberta oil.
Trudeau’s Legacy: cheap pot, and Intentional Bankruptcy.