The debacle in Montreal — National Energy Board hearings into the Energy East pipeline proposal were suspended Tuesday because of violent protests — bodes ill for this and other resource projects. New Canadian visa offices are to open in Chinese cities, easing travel to Canada for China’s legions of newly prosperous tourists. Oil and natural gas will be an important part of the energy mix for decades to come, regardless. Former prime minister Stephen Harper threatened, after President Barack Obama shelved the Keystone XL pipeline project in 2012, to sell our oil to China instead. And now Trudeau is in China, laying the groundwork for a bustling future trade in oil for which Canada is utterly unprepared.

Source: National Post September 01, 2016 21:33 UTC