Ottawa’s energy rules are crippling the West

It’s unbelievable. Canada now runs on two energy economies — one in the West, burdened by costly “net-zero” regulations, and another in the East, fuelled by billions of dollars’ worth of imported foreign oil untouched by such rules.

Why? To talk about how one country can accommodate two energy economies — one based on expensive oil out west, the other on cheap oil in the east — host Nigel Hannaford is joined on The Hannaford Show by Dr. Ron Wallace, who dissects the economic imbalance at the heart of Ottawa’s climate policy.

Wallace is a former National Energy Board member and consultant with decades of experience in the oil sands. He remarks that between 1988 and 2020, Eastern Canadian refineries imported more than $364 billion in foreign oil — much of it from the United States — without being subject to Ottawa’s “decarbonisation” mandates of the last ten years.