Let me give you what little insight I have on the Chinese. They classify people as family/clan, "old friends," or the other. Canadians are the other. If someone is the other there are no binding rules in the ways the other can be treated.
Wouldn't have anything to do with NOT having a pipeline to the west coast would it? We are dependent on a fickle US market because of a few eco terrorists.
A few eco-terrorists? Only about half the province is against it. First, we have to refine this bitumin before we ship it across the ocean. Second, we ought to ship Alta bitumen to Ontario/Que/Atlc so we don't have to buy foreign oil and use up foreign exchange.
Totally. The USA has sold out to corporations and screwed the public. Let's not give big biz our national assets. Harper, such an international novice. First he hated those bad Chinese communists, now he loves their money, so much he's willing to let the Chinese govt nationalize the most important resource in the world right now. Oil. Here, in Canada right now.