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Yes we do! But the rest of Canada past that is left in the dark. Eastern Canada still has to import internationally. Plus America has messed around with us potentially building a key Pacific Pipeline to open up the doors to the Chinese.
The Keystone fiasco upsets me. How toothless we are to not give the USA any serious ramifications for fucking us over like that. Are lips are sealed tightly on Obama's cock. Proof? Harper jets down to D.C. to "meet" with Obama and he only gives him 30 mins of his time.
Obama has tossed aside the Keystone issue for post-election because he doesn't want that mess brewing up during his campaign. In the meantime we Canadians are left sit and wait as potential money burns away.
The Tar Sands ? Well I have no "major" qualms about the Tar Sands, it is dirty as hell and resource intensive - but it is what it is. My major issues come to that fact that Canada can't exploit the tar sends to its best interests like other nations can their own oil, such as Norway for example.
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I don't like to comment about USA politics but when they cancelled that pipeline expansion, it directly affected my job security! I agree that Obama did this to get re-elected, but I think you're over stating Canada's ability to do anything to the states, because of our NAFTA commitments, we are America's little bitch and we'll take whatever they give!
We export something like 95% of our oil state side, and until the cancellation of the pipeline, they had been a great customer! This may actually be a blessing in disguise, as it may force us to build more refineries in Alberta, and build that pipeline to the Pacific coast, if the Americans don't want our oil, I"m sure the Asians will!
From a Canadian perspective, Bush was actually better for us than Obama, he was a pro-business oil man who understood the economic and security benefits of importing oil from Canada rather than from rogue states like Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Libya,etc.
How do you figure we're not able to best exploit our oil resources like Norway?
Yes we do! But the rest of Canada past that is left in the dark. Eastern Canada still has to import internationally. Plus America has messed around with us potentially building a key Pacific Pipeline to open up the doors to the Chinese.
The Keystone fiasco upsets me. How toothless we are to not give the USA any serious ramifications for fucking us over like that. Are lips are sealed tightly on Obama's cock. Proof? Harper jets down to D.C. to "meet" with Obama and he only gives him 30 mins of his time.
Obama has tossed aside the Keystone issue for post-election because he doesn't want that mess brewing up during his campaign. In the meantime we Canadians are left sit and wait as potential money burns away.
The Tar Sands ? Well I have no "major" qualms about the Tar Sands, it is dirty as hell and resource intensive - but it is what it is. My major issues come to that fact that Canada can't exploit the tar sends to its best interests like other nations can their own oil, such as Norway for example.
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I don't like to comment about USA politics but when they cancelled that pipeline expansion, it directly affected my job security! I agree that Obama did this to get re-elected, but I think you're over stating Canada's ability to do anything to the states, because of our NAFTA commitments, we are America's little bitch and we'll take whatever they give!
We export something like 95% of our oil state side, and until the cancellation of the pipeline, they had been a great customer! This may actually be a blessing in disguise, as it may force us to build more refineries in Alberta, and build that pipeline to the Pacific coast, if the Americans don't want our oil, I"m sure the Asians will!
From a Canadian perspective, Bush was actually better for us than Obama, he was a pro-business oil man who understood the economic and security benefits of importing oil from Canada rather than from rogue states like Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Libya,etc.
How do you figure we're not able to best exploit our oil resources like Norway?