Canada’s new “Canadian Identity” minister @s_guilbeault just deceived Canadians saying we don’t need more pipelines because the TMX pipeline is only 40% full and peak oil will be in 2 years. The facts are that TMX, which just opened and would have been built entirely with private dollars if Ottawa hadn’t made it impossible for the original proponent to build it, is already close to capacity. Further most estimates of demand for bitumen shows it growing for several more decades and that it will be needed to replace declining U.S. conventional oil fields. This is just another example of how misleading and destructive this former environment minister was to Alberta’s and Canada’s economy and investment climate. We ask for the new environment minister @juliedabrusin to disavow his comments and commit to working with Alberta to build new pipelines to access new markets.

Did you know the United States has a $53 billion trade surplus with Canada when our oil and gas is excluded? And that oil and gas is sold at a discount to U.S. refineries where over 1 million American workers triple its value by turning that oil and gas into fuel, plastics and other products that U.S. companies sell all over the world. The U.S. - Canada trade and security relationship is the definition of mutually beneficial. Let’s not damage it, nor destroy the jobs Canadian and American workers, with tariffs of any kind.