Canada’s Empty Oil Promise to Our Allies - The Tyee

Listen to this article 6 min Canada is extending its hand to friendly nations hurt by their dependence on oil made scarce by conflict in the Middle East. But look closely, and you’ll see that hand is largely empty. Today, despite bad behaviour by the United States and China towards Canada, those two countries benefit most from our reliable oil production. That’s not what Canada’s minister of energy and natural resources, Tim Hodgson, signalled in March when he delivered a big promise at the world’s most important energy conference in Houston. “Over the last two weeks, with Iran closing the Str…