Your reactions to: “Canadian oil and gas captive to the American market”

Here are some of your comments on the text by energy specialist Yvan Cliche¹.

Weak position

We must admit that oil is a resource that is still a key part of the economy and the lack of vision of the Quebec government hits us hard. Having blocked the gas pipeline project from Alberta to the Maritimes a few years ago, we find ourselves in a weak position in the face of the American threat. True, we need to move towards clean energy, but this will happen over a period of a few decades. Until then, given our past decisions, we will have to fight for our economy with very few resources against an adversary who does not have common sense and recognition in his DNA.

Benoît Duchesneau, Beloeil

Let’s Think Canada

I think it’s time to think Canada. To do this, we must allow and facilitate trade between all provinces among themselves and internationally. We must also allow Alberta to export its energy resources more easily and elsewhere than to the United States. We must therefore, I believe, allow the construction of a pipeline to reach Eastern ports with a view to exporting to Europe.

Robert Dusablon, La Prairie

Social acceptability

If Quebec had launched its LNG project, we would probably not be far from exploitation today and with access to the European market. The nuisance in Quebec is the concept of social acceptability: this concept serves a government without conviction or principles. We would clearly benefit from clarifying the concept because in my opinion, an elected government must convince its population of the merits of a policy or project and not the other way around.

Jean-Guy Dalpé, Quebec

We had our plan

What fascinates me with all the recent communications on the export of natural gas is that we forget that we had an export project through Saguenay and that it was our Greens who convinced our government to block the project.

Jacques Famery, Joliette

Urgent action is required

It is urgent, for Canada’s economic security, to quickly build new pipelines to the Pacific and the Gulf of St. Lawrence to export our oil and natural gas to Asia and Europe. With the new era of Trump, and his followers of the MAGA movement, who preach economic protectionism and political isolationism, the United States is no longer a reliable friend and ally. Canada must come out of its torpor and take urgent action to protect itself from attacks on our economy and our sovereignty coming from our neighbors to the South.

Jacques Morneau, Mont-Saint-Hilaire

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