“Canada is an energy superpower” – a line that PM Mark Carney and energy minister Tim Hodgson like to repeat often. Canada should be front and centre in global energy trade discussions given the gas shortages and price hikes caused by the Russian and Iranian wars, and the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, which has shot up the price of Brent crude to $119 a barrel in March, the biggest monthly price increase ever. However, Canada and its oil and gas industry are not seen as a solution to the global oil shortages – for a multitude of reasons all beginning and ending with Ottawa and the Liberal government. It is time that Canadians began listening to the voices from the oil patch.
The country’s energy executives have lost faith that a new oil pipeline to west coast tidewater will be fast-tracked, and this is in spite of PM Carney’s assurances and his signed MOU with Alberta to make it so. Ottawa is quick to promote the possible west coast one-million-barrels-per-day pipeline and is as fas…
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