DAMAGE TRUDEAU HAS DONE
We can only hope the majority of Canadians are not going to fall for Trudeau’s latest bribe in an attempt to buy votes as he watches his Liberal Party go down the toilet under his leadership. He is going to give Canadians a little break, and then slap you with his next useless carbon tax increase in April. It is scary to think how much more damage he can do to our country, before he is finally gone.
Barry Harris
Edmonton
(The next election cannot come soon enough. We share this concern about the havoc he will wreak as he clings to power)
STOP GIVING IT AWAY
The U.S. is the primary destination for our crude oil, receiving approximately 97% of Canada’s crude oil exports in 2023. The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has done little to change that – it is not near full and much of the additional volumes, transported at pipeline tolls three to four times higher than for the old pipeline, goes to refineries in Washington state and California. Every Albertan, except under national parks, some Indigenous lands, and a few hereditary private mineral rights, shares ownership of the vast majority of mineral rights– not the oil companies which lease our mineral rights. This Albertan is fed up with selling his crude oil at a discounted price because it has just one market, fed up with high pipeline tolls, fed up with exporting away most of the retail value of a barrel of oil by not upgrading domestically, fed up with a lack of access to world markets and world prices, and fed up with Trump’s threat of a 25% tariff on products imported from Canada. It is long past time that a two-million-barrels-a-day oil pipeline is built in an energy corridor to Prince Rupert to export our crude oil and refined products, as well as LPG, gas liquids, and natural gas as LNG world-wide at world prices – not at discounted, un-upgraded, and potentially tariffed prices to just one buyer.
Mike Priaro
Calgary
(When Canada elects a new government next year – likely Poilievre’s Conservative Party – there will be a drastic and positive shift in policy on our natural resources)