And in the most Liberal way possible
Frankly, Wilkinson’s decision is not unjustifiable just because, as a side effect, it happens to cater to Quebec. Remember, the turbines in question are German-owned equipment. We don’t have economic sanctions against Germany, and Germany has pleaded with us to let Siemens have its own turbines back.
: the gas turbines used to run pipeline compressor stations aren’t actually interchangeable in practice with the ones sometimes used to make planes go zoom.Article content And, after all, economic sanctions are by their nature chosen from a menu of choices, and must be pursued in concert to be effective. No particular sanction is in itself a matter of ironclad ethical duty, although this one leaves the Liberals with the problem of how they will answer to Ukraine and its government.
Germany’s Green economy minister, Robert Habeck, is doing his best to provide Canada with political cover. Hethat economic sanctions against Russia should hurt Russia above all. He reiterated, as even very eco-radical post-Merkel politicians in Germany have been required to, that German dependence on Russian energy supplies was Germany’s mistake. It is Germany that has to live with the consequences.
But you will notice that this was apparently too big a decision to leave to the usual Liberal cabinet suspects. A foreign observer watching Canadian politics — and the turbine crisis has everyone from oil analysts to pundits looking at us unusually closely — would surely find it mystifying that a “natural resources” minister is the one to make the big decision on a sanctions issue.
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