Thomas Mulcair offers Alberta an updated version of a bad idea

[Locutus]

Tom Mulcair cast himself as a latter-day Sir John A. Macdonald when he talked in Calgary about his vision of Western Canada oil being shipped by pipeline to central and eastern provinces to be processed and then sold domestically.

It would be a nation-building project on a par with railway construction in the 1800s, “a win-win situation,” he said.

But the net effect of supplying Eastern consumers with cheaper Western oil would be closer to a less celebrated federal initiative — Pierre Trudeau’s late and unlamented National Energy Program.


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[petros]

He doesn't know of plans to pipe to Montreal for processing for domestic and pipe to New Bunswick (possible upgraders too) for export?

Or is his plan to sqauwk that the pipe will go south of the Great Lakes feeding US markets before going north?

Stay tuned next week to find out on the next episode of the The House

A couple of spoliers...

Harper and Obama announce a "Joint Nor AM Action Plan" with CDN funds going to a highway and rail corridor south of the Great Lakes instead of through N. ON.

And for the Green Beans VIA and Cons alike, VIA Rail is sold off and a New Nor Am system inroduced but Mulcair blows a gasket when Bombardier doesn't get loco deal.