They bought you a pipeline.

And Canadian oil leaves Canada. Increasing output may help global prices and petro-province revenue, but it won’t do a thing for local prices.

And climate change is real.

The article pretty much spells it out - OPEC controls the price of oil globally through their massive hand in the supply side of the industry. Even if you get your wish and have O&G completely deregulate here in Canada, the reality is that they aren’t going to make a dent in global oil prices regardless of output. If we produce a ton of oil, OPEC simply shuts their taps further until the prices equalize to a point that benefits the members of the cartel.

Other than a reduction in taxes on gasoline at the pump, Canada has very little effective means of changing the cost of oil globally.

Unless you’re suggesting we turn into Venezuela #2 and we turn all oil companies and wells into government property, build a crap ton of refining capacity on the tax payer’s penny and sell the resulting oil products at cost / at a loss. But frankly, that outcome is even worse as now we’d have 50 cents/L gas, but all our other taxes would go through the roof.

And to clarify. Canada is a net exporter of oil. But most of that oil goes west and to port. About 10% of the oil we import is from the middle east. The majority of the oil we import is from the US. And we mainly import oil because it’s cheaper to import it than it is to move that much oil east.

At this point it really doesn’t make sense to build infrastructure to to move oil east, and really since oil is one big market, us selling and then buying doesn’t really matter…

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