The Faustian bargain behind Carney’s pipeline politics

The risk isn't another pipeline. It's Ottawa becoming a high-stakes player in an energy market it once regulated at arm’s length.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is asking Canadians to hold expanded fossil fuel exports and climate leadership in the same hand, writes Bhagwant Sandhu.

Every bargain carries a price the signer hasn't yet read. That is the lesson of the legendary Faust, and it is now written into Canadian energy policy.

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