π¨π¦ One truck bump and Democrats want to choke 540,000 barrels a day
Line 5 moves up to 540,000 barrels daily and keeps propane and crude flowing from Alberta to Ontario through a 1,038-km artery built in 1953, yet one construction accident with no injuries is being milked into an election-season morality play by Gretchen Whitmer, Tony Evers, and Democrat candidate Fred Clark. As reported, a parked semi rolled into an exposed section near the Wisconsin-Michigan border, gas leaked, it was isolated, and suddenly the usual green posturing machine demanded work stoppages and more legal warfare.
This is the real absurdity of the Trudeau era in one file: Canada sits on energy wealth, then leaves a strategic export lifeline hostage to U.S. state-level activists and grandstanding Democrats. Instead of building sovereign east-west infrastructure and treating energy as national power, Ottawa spent years worshipping ESG, consultations, and anti-carbon theatrics. Result: our economy depends on foreign politicians auditioning for environmental sainthood while Canadians pay the price for elite cowardice.
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