Reality check needed on pipeline rhetoric

It's not in Canada's national interest to squander taxpayers’ dollars on a project that will never be built, says Independent Senator Marilou McPhedran. It would be advanced by unleashing public investment to support a clean-energy economy.

Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr addressed reporters on Tuesday alongside Finance Minister Bill Morneau to announce the government plans to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion for $4.5 billion from Kinder Morgan. The Hill Time photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MARILOU MCPHEDRAN

May 29, 2018

Last week, before the Liberal government made the extraordinary announcement that it would buy the Kinder Morgan pipeline, a majority of Senators moved to push the government on the pipeline by passing Bill S-245. Throughout the process of crafting their legislative message to the Trudeau governmen...

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