🇨🇦 Only a trade scare can make politicians rediscover Canadian energy

After years of climate posturing, New Brunswick is suddenly reviewing its fracking ban because trade pressure hurts. What a miracle. The same political class that helped choke domestic energy now wants to act pragmatic when the bill arrives. Premier Susan Holt is learning the obvious lesson Ottawa still resists: a country that sits on resources while preaching scarcity is not green, it is unserious. The province’s rethink, reported, is an admission that ideology collapses the moment prosperity and leverage are on the line.

This is the Trudeau era in miniature: ban, delay, moralize, then panic when foreign pressure exposes how dependent and weak Canada has become. Fracking was treated like heresy to impress urban activists and global climate bureaucrats, while ordinary Canadians got higher costs and less sovereignty. Energy independence should not require a trade war to become fashionable again. If New Brunswick has gas, develop it, sell it, and stop governing like Brussels interns trapped in a Maritime legislature.

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