Canada’s National Energy Board lives in Fantasyland

IN 1980, furious Albertans slapped bumper stickers on their cars stating “Let the eastern bastards freeze in the dark” to protest Ottawa’s “Canada First” National Energy Program. Every federal government since has ceded national energy policy to the provinces and, by proxy, to the North American marketplace.

This appalling abdication of leadership leaves Canada completely exposed to the supply crisis experts predict is inevitable once the world enters the dark and uncertain time of Peak Oil.

Here are some of the reasons why:

Canada exports 67 per cent of its oil to the U.S. yet 40 per cent of Canadians are totally reliant on offshore, mostly Middle Eastern, oil. The three leading Middle Eastern countries upon whom 36 per cent of Ontarians and 90 per cent of Quebecers and Atlantic Canadians depend are Algeria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

Winnipeg Free Press