Wilkinson says Ottawa and provinces should discuss possibility of west-east oil pipeline

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Wilkinson says Ottawa and provinces should discuss possibility of west-east oil pipeline

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Posted February 6, 2025 2:10 pm

Updated February 6, 2025 2:11 pm

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Canada’s energy minister says Ottawa and the provinces should discuss the possibility of an oil pipeline to Eastern Canada to improve energy security.

Jonathan Wilkinson says it’s a “vulnerability” for Canada to export so much of its oil to the United States in the context of the Trump administration’s tariff threats.

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He also says the fact that Ontario and Quebec are served by Enbridge Line 5, an oil pipeline that runs through the Great Lakes states, creates “some degree of uncertainty.”

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Wilkinson told reporters this morning on a call from Washington, D.C., that the Trans Mountain pipeline to Canada’s West Coast, which the government bought in 2018, was an “important investment” despite the controversy it caused.

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats of imposing 25 per cent tariffs on ********* goods — and 10 per cent tariffs on energy — have renewed interest in a pipeline to move oil to the east for shipment overseas.

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Quebec Premier François Legault said earlier this week that there is still no social acceptability for an oil pipeline through the province, but suggested Trump’s actions could change the situation.

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