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Canada's first 'national interest' project is an oil pipeline, which means bye bye orcas and hello climate dystopia. And for what? (rachelgilmore.substack.com)
submitted 20 hours ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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[–] 5 points 18 hours ago* (12 children)

Why is it national interest to ship OUT your oil? I'd think keeping it IN the nation would actually be national interest. Oh? That's right, shareholder wealth...the rest is "f- the environment," actually.

And as we've seen with Iran and Venezuela, oil production paints a bullseye on you.

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  • [–] 10 points 17 hours ago (10 children)

    Because trade is good for everyone involved? That's something the Americans have completely lost the plot on.

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  • [–] 6 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

    Trade with the US was bad for Canada every year prior.

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  • [–] 7 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

    It wouldn't have been if it was reliable.

    Fundamentally, trade happens when you've got something that you don't want as much as your neighbour does, but he has something that you want more than he does. The result is that each side gets something they wanted more.

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  • [–] 6 points 16 hours ago* (4 children)

    Fundamentally it was just stealing from us to make them rich. Being unreliable is good for us.

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  • [–] 1 point 16 hours ago (3 children)

    It made both of us richer. Spare us this Trumpian zero-sum view, it's normal for both trading partners to benefit.

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  • [–] 5 points 16 hours ago* (2 children)

    We benefited trading with the UK. The US didn't take over to benefit us. Don't act like the Canada/US (or NAFTA) wasn't the worst agreement in Canadian history.

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  • [–] 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    Depending on other nations to refine our oil leaves us vulnerable. Which is why if we nationalize and refine most of our own oil, it would allow us to keep profits within the Canadian economy. So trade isn’t always a positive.

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  • [–] 5 points 16 hours ago

    We can build a pipeline a lot faster than we can build refineries. By all means do both, but the refineries won't be online for many years after we're already selling the unrefined stuff.

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