PIPELINES

We couldn't build the controversial oil pipeline to northern B.C. Then we couldn't build the pipeline that would have recycled a bunch of existing pipeline infrastructure to send oil east for domestic processing. Then we couldn't build the oil pipeline that was basically an expansion of an existing pipeline that had existed uncontroversially for half a century. Then we couldn't build a natural gas pipeline approved with unprecedented levels of Indigenous support. And now we can't even build an oil pipeline that is already halffinished.

As the world's investors are beginning to notice, this is becoming a uniquely Canadian problem. Authoritarian countries such as Russia, China and Saudi Arabia are obviously going to build oil infrastructure wherever they want, but even progressive, environmentally minded nations like Norway do not trifle with their ability to produce and export petroleum.