Opinion: Albertans are feeling deep frustration, a sense that we have contributed massively to the rest of Canada but are being blocked and pinned down at every turn.
On Tuesday, at the first cabinet meeting of our new Alberta government, we proclaimed into law the Preserving Canada’s Economic Prosperity Act, which gives our government the ability to curtail oil shipments from Alberta.
The Trans Mountain Pipeline, connecting Alberta’s petroleum refineries to B.C.’s Lower Mainland, has been safely operating since 1953 and it remains the way that most B.C. gasoline is delivered. In recent years, industry has proposed a major increase to the capacity of this pipeline system through the Trans Mountain Expansion project, or TMX.
The impetus for the act is to alleviate the resource backlog that has been exacerbated by delaying TMX. Unfortunately, since coming into office in July 2017, the B.C. government has opposed the expansion project every step of the way, most recently in the B.C. Court of Appeal. One province claiming to have the power to block exports from the rest of Canada would undermine one of the principles of our Confederation, the economic union between our provinces.
The campaign to landlock Alberta’s resources, resulting in the failure of several pipeline projects to Canada’s West and East coasts, has been economically devastating, contributing to high unemployment, bankruptcies and insolvencies. This is not sustainable, nor is it in the national interest. Alberta must have the ability, if and only for so long as needed, to control the export of its natural resources in order to maximize their value, whether through B.C. or otherwise.
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