Newfoundland and Alberta are in economic hardship because government has mismanaged resources. Good for Vancouver if we've learned from those mistakes. The lack of this pipe line expansion did not hurt the Alberta economy (or that of Nfld) for 15 of the last 20 years - maybe the two are unrelated?

The unemployment in 2 provinces is not going to be resolved by building a pipeline that creates jobs for a year or 2 (more in BC, than Albert or Newfoundland) and then we're back where we started.

This pipeline expansion will create jobs - foreign ones. Those working the tankers (some of whom have been known to starve in the Vancouver harbor waiting to be paid by unscrupulous foreign employers) and those refining the oil - far, far away. Risk the local economy for that? No.

For jobs, we could do the refining here, in Canada, where the jobs are needed. But no. Why?

Because we don't want to pay those wages.

Get that? We - Canadians - don't want to pay those wages.

No tankers ty.