Given Canada’s proximity to the United States, we tend to take our peace and security for granted.
This comfortable distance from most of the world’s violence has also led us to underestimate how useful Canada might be in defusing threats elsewhere using an item some people overlook as leverage: energy.
Canadians might have a general sense that oil in particular, matters to world affairs; but given that Canada has never been a superpower, it has never been responsible for the wider world order to ensure that oil (or natural gas) flow to countries that need it. Given recent developments at home and abroad, that blissful unawareness merits re-thinking.
The world received a wake-up call recently in the form of Russian expansionism into Ukraine. A full history lesson is not possible here but Ukraine, as with much of central Europe, has had the misfortune to be at the crossroads of aggressors, and sometimes competing aggressors before.
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Canadian oil can make the world a safer place
This comfortable distance from most of the world’s violence has also led us to underestimate how useful Canada might be in defusing threats elsewhere using an item some people overlook as leverage: energy.
Canadians might have a general sense that oil in particular, matters to world affairs; but given that Canada has never been a superpower, it has never been responsible for the wider world order to ensure that oil (or natural gas) flow to countries that need it. Given recent developments at home and abroad, that blissful unawareness merits re-thinking.
The world received a wake-up call recently in the form of Russian expansionism into Ukraine. A full history lesson is not possible here but Ukraine, as with much of central Europe, has had the misfortune to be at the crossroads of aggressors, and sometimes competing aggressors before.
more
Canadian oil can make the world a safer place
