Let's face it Canada is a commodity resource based economy. The US Banks via their HFTs dictate the prices for all commodities ...90% plus of commodity trades are HFT trades per the US government. The banks/financial institutions own the major media organizations....Reuters/Market Watch/Bloomberg to mention a few. Canadian media depends on government subsidies to ensure it's existenc.  All of the above facilitates political interference in manipulating commodity prices. The Canadian government tell us they have no ability to  drive prices up or down. Yet that is what budget changes are all about. Today we will be told what the US crude oil inventory is by the "media" using US government EIA as the source. Oil will go up or down based on half truths you are told by the media...they have zero obligation to publish the inventory levels of gasoline/distillate/jet fuel contained in the same EIA report as the crude oil inventory. Last two weeks oil up 8 mmbbl, G/D/J down 19 mmbbls. $8 drop .