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Vincent Lauerman
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11 March 2025
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Canada revisits big pipeline question

Investor certainty key to diversifying country’s oil and gas exports amid fresh talk of improving infrastructure to boost energy security

With the second Trump administration potentially starting a trade war with Canada and threatening the country’s sovereignty, there is suddenly lots of talk about constructing new oil and gas pipelines to provide greater energy security and to access overseas markets to diversify exports away from the US. Ironically, this follows nearly a decade of anti-oil and gas policies by the federal government under the leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party that led to the cancellation of several major crude oil pipeline projects to coastal waters. “We need to see real change on numerous fronts” Ebel, Enbridge “The silver lining to the escalating political tensions is

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