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The Macdonald-Laurier Institute is pleased to name Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland as Pol

20 Dec 2018

unilaterally imposed a ban on tankers along concerns care deeply about the environment, As we have seen repeatedly in recent the West Coast, again without discussing and we resent the implication of statements years, the government of Canada appears to the economy-destroying impact of this by the government of Canada and consult primarily with people and organiza- decision on Indigenous peoples. [...] Sharleen Gale Ken Coates It is important to recall all the stories attributing the delays in the Trans Mountain Pipeline, the collapse of the Enbridge Northern Gateway project, and the general malaise in the natural resource economy to Indigenous resistance. [...] All of the Indigenous rumbling from out West is the sound of The only alternative on offer – a continua- an embattled energy sector celebrating tion of the intrusive and unreliable welfare communities along the first bold sign in a few years that the economy the Government of Canada has the pipeline route country is willing to further unlock its constructed and maintained over the past natural res. [...] already has independent trade relations Perhaps the first course of action should Welcoming Taiwanese membership in the with these and other countries as part of the be to deepen and strengthen the work that CPTPP would only solidify the gains that World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Canada has already devoted to the CPTPP. [...] Of the the government has not sought to select the If Canada acquires the F-35, Innovation, airframes considered, the F-35 offered the right option, but rather to create a vehicle for Science, and Economic Development highest capability (by a significant margin) building political capital, using the façade of Canada predicts more than $10-billion with the lowest lifetime cost, and due to its a fai.
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