Taxpayers can’t pay for pipeline

Re: “‘Clock is ticking and it is getting louder’ on Trans Mountain,” April 12.

If Alberta purchases the Trans Mountain pipeline, it will be subsidizing B.C. energy consumers with an uneconomic pipeline. As an Alberta taxpayer, that does not appeal to me in the least.

It’s pretty clear that, as long as the federal government refuses to uphold the law, we will continue to see foreign capital flee our country.

If the Trans Mountain pipeline can’t be built with private investors’ capital, why should it be built by Alberta taxpayers?

This is starting to smell like the National Energy Program during the days when Pierre Elliott Trudeau felt compelled to buy up major stakes in Canada’s energy companies under the guise of national energy security. We all know how that ended. John Disturnal, Calgary