Canadian governments at all levels have failed all of Canada for not broadening our trading partners. Having a single major customer like the US is simply a very bad approach. Canada needed pipelines to tidewater on both coasts more than a decade ago. Perhaps with Trump the governments will finally get the message that Canada must engage with much more of the world quickly.

It is a sad state that we export oil to the US and then buy back finished product, such as gasoline. For example, when the large refinery in Washington state goes offline, there is a gasoline shortage in BC, AB, SK and sometimes in MB. Canada can be energy self sufficient with the development of pipelines and refineries. The day will come when the US will not have the capacity or there will be border taxes making imported energy products prohibitively expensive.  Our economy will take a nose dive.