Wrote my MP, thanks for the link

He would never do that! His party says Liberal on its flag, that means he’s Liberal.

It’s worse than that. He’s trying to spin it as beneficial to us because we’ll beat them with our cleaner oil…somehow. You know, because people who shamelessly pillage other nations for their resources are going to care about our cleaner oil.

Cheaper is a straight-up fabrication. It’s not going to be cheaper to refine our sandy crude than it is for Venezuela to do a shittier job of refining their own oil. Especially when you consider that colonial powers usually don’t care about externalized costs like environmental damage, or death/injury to the locals that are enslaved tasked with extracting/refining the oil.

And lower risk? In what way? Oil tankers require a bit more effort and commitment to damage/destroy than overland pipelines do.

Carney manages to look inept in three different ways. No matter how you slice it, this ain’t the guy you want at the helm when we’re under threat. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was always the game plan. Just 'cause the party’s called “Liberal” doesn’t mean the guy running it is, and given all of the weak, appeasing language he’s used regarding this catastrophe, it wouldn’t surprise me if paving the way for annexation is his real goal.