NOPE. That is just the excuse. How much Canadian oil goes to the middle east? What other countries, or more correctly their rulling class is prepared to pay for gas and diesel is not relevant to Canadian taxpayers needs. The fact is we have a spineless government that not only hates the west, and believes in AGW, execpt for the fuel that jets use to take politicians and bureaucraps on world cruises, but gets an increase in revenue from extra taxes while pretending to not be the bad guy.
This, of course will soon make the economy crash but by then it will be too late. Russia of course is laughing all the way to the bank. Which many with serious TDS claim was the plan all along.