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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
The bottom line is now this, we've seen what happens when we're reliant on Americans' as our primary market. With Keystone gone and the American's threatening line 5, we've put ourselves in a horrible position, both with our primary customer, and domestically.
So Trudeau has to put on his I love Alberta Oil T-Shirt and address that elephant in the room, though its probably too late because he gave way too much power to Quebec and BC and Ontario.
But Canada has to have a cross Canada pipeline, its that simple, and Canada has to build on its capacity to ship oil at both ends of the country.
We are in a position of zero energy security now. If the governor of Michigan enforces the shut down of Line 5 its going to devastate Ontario and Quebec, both in terms of employment and in terms of energy costs.
Someone above said the American public didn't want Keystone, I saw a survey up yesterday that 68% of American's surveyed approved of Keystone.
I've been saying it for years, but we need to increase our international markets in everything and not rely on the americans, they're not our friends, and we're their ally of convenience. With a stroke of a pen Biden can devastate a lot of business sectors in Canada in the name of America first. We can't prevent him from doing that now, but we have to build towards that future.
Oh and Kenney is dumb talking about things like Trade Sanctions. At the same time, Trudeau giving up without a fight verbally after boasting of breaking the law for SNC for Canadian jobs and the life or death struggle in aluminum or Steel is just a bad message. He has to ask for compensation tomorrow. He has to make it clear that the American elephant just stepped on a loyal allies testicles yesterday.
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We need a National Energy Program. It is unfortunately destined to come from a Trudeau. The original one failed in that it set ridiculous price caps on the oil that were predatory to the development of our Province, but the basic tenants were very sound: 50+% Canadian Ownership, Canadian Federal support and interest, Transnational pipeline and energy security, Transnational oil jobs to ensure permanent public support, and Port access to global markets on both coasts. We threw out the baby with the bathwater when Mulroney scrapped it.