🇨🇦 Canada can import dependency, but can’t build a pipeline properly

Doug Ford and Danielle Smith unveiled a 3,300-kilometre Alberta-to-Sarnia pipe, while chiefs across Ontario, B.C. and Alberta say they found out by email blasts and rumours. That is the Canadian state in one frame: years of climate sermons, foreign oil dependence, and then a last-minute consultation scramble dressed up as nation-building. Even Linda Debassige of Anishinabek Nation says the process was a blindside, while Tsawwassen leaders say the B.C. route was a surprise too, as reported.

The real scandal is not that Canada wants pipelines. It is that our political class spent a decade sabotaging national energy sovereignty, then suddenly remembered geography exists. Trudeau-era paralysis turned every strategic project into a legal minefield, and now premiers are trying to reverse-engineer consent after the photo op. If Canada wants to stop kneeling before Washington, OPEC and ESG bureaucrats, it needs hard infrastructure, real negotiation and a government that acts like this country still belongs to Canadians.

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