Rethinking Canada: is there life beyond the oil patch?

The sooner the country begins moving in a major way toward an economy that is no longer tethered to petroleum, the better.

With Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard, pictured, throwing up roadblocks for the proposed Energy East pipeline, the most likely project in the works is Kinder Morgan’s plan to twin the existing Trans Mountain conduit through B.C., writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

October 5, 2016

OTTAWA—Twenty-six years after the Exxon Valdez hit a reef and dumped 11 million gallons of crude oil into the clear, cold waters of Prince William Sound, the people of Alaska are still trying to clean up the damage, which befouled more than 1,000 miles of coastline. The event arguably changed the...

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