Kinder Morgan deal reminds us we’re still hewers of wood, drawers of water

It’s understandable but unfortunate the PM felt compelled to pony up $4.5-billion to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau, right, and Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr head to Ottawa's National Press Theatre on May 29 to announce the government is buying the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

June 6, 2018

OTTAWA—I remember well the afternoon in 2010 at what used to be called the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade when our policy team was invited to listen to one of the so-called “geniuses” in the Asia division. He detailed a plan to export unprocessed bitumen to China and Ja...

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