RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Trump talks too muchthe history has been more complex than that Oil2018.
Failure of building Pipelines to coasts aside, did you know the old NAFTA agreement basically gave the US first right of refusal for Cdn energy.
I copied the clause below.
Although we were somewhat handcuffed, we already had the worlds largest consumer of energy in our backyard, who also happened to be the most wealthy nation.
What better customer can you ask for? So other costly avenues were not pursued.
The "proportionality clause" originally appeared in the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement of 1988 and became a major issue in that year's federal election that returned Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to office.
The clause can be invoked if a government in Canada reduces U.S. access to Canadian oil, natural gas, coal, electricity and refined petroleum products without a corresponding reduction in domestic access to those products — in other words, the ratio of energy exports versus supply must remain consistent, or proportional.