Transmountain PipelineThis circus started in 2013, for permission to build a pipeline alongside one already built years ago and therefore familiar ground. Five years and more later, assorted federal and provincial clowns and buffoons have studied, studied, litigated, regulated and bloviated, and brought us to our present situation. Section 92.10c of the Constitution Act of 1867, often called the BNA Act, reserved for the Federal jurisdiction "Such works as, although wholly situate within the province, are before or after their execution declared by the parliament of Canada to be for the general Advantage of Canada or for the Advantage of Two or more of the provinces." Therefore, even a pipeline wholly located within a province can be approved and regulated under federal jurisdiction, as well as, most certainly, pipelines crossing provincial borders. All this based on the written portion of our constitution, that is written so clearly that even a very dim econut might understand. The only thing lacking was the political will for the Federal Government" to "declare" the issue to be of national importance. So, with all this dithering and butt scratching, we have deprived ourselves of hundreds of millions, if not several billions of dollars that might have financed a lot of good works here in Canada. Our politicians are timid, gutless, floundering, cowering, whimpering procrastinators. We no longer punch above our weight as we did in WWII.