HAVE WE HAD AN ‘I HAVE YOUR BACK’ MESSAGE FOR OIL?

tour, an “I have your back” message for oil? The answer is so obvious the question itself is lunatic.

Should we in fastidious fairness point out that, well, there are no Trump threats of tariffs on Canadian oil? There’s a reason for that. Mainly because it’s housebound in Alberta. Trump can’t threaten a tariff on a product that doesn’t have the means of export. (Would there were an oil industry in Quebec and Ontario. How the lyrics to this song would change.)

However, what Trump can’t do, Trudeau did. He imposed an ever-escalating internal tariff, his and Minister McKenna’s fabulous carbon (dioxide) tax. As good as a tariff in blocking a resurgence when that thunderbolt fell. It could be said they didn’t have their oil industry’s back.

Does he have the Trans Mountain pipeline and the future of the oil industry’s back? Has the PM he gone to B.C. to state and insist on the national interest in completing the pipeline? Has he confuted the relentless propaganda of its permanent opponents? Has he ever argued with Greenpeace, Sierra Club, had one of his “conversations” with Aboriginal protesters where he made the case for the pipeline? Has he lived up to his deal with Rachel Notley? “No” to all these questions.

So when the B.C. government threatens to do all in its power to stop the project, where’s the press con-