EDMONTON — A candidate to lead Alberta’s new United Conservative Party says one way to jump-start the province’s lagging oil industry may be to buy a piece of Manitoba. Jeff Callaway says the province should look at buying the port of Churchill on Hudson Bay and shipping oil there by pipeline. “This has so many benefits not just for Alberta, but for Western Canada and Canada broadly,” Callaway said at the legislature Tuesday. He says tankers in Churchill could carry oil abroad and fetch a better price for Alberta, which has been running multibillion-dollar deficits in recent years. Callaway is also promising to end Alberta’s current tax on carbon for home and business owners if he becomes the United Conservative leader.

Source: National Post August 29, 2017 18:03 UTC