“Why a ban on plastic straws sucks” – Maclean’s, May 13.
“The pessimists have it right, assassins are gunning for Trans Mountain [Pipeline].” – Financial Post, August 31.
“If cars and trains and planes could run on green sanctimony, in the age of Justin Trudeau, Canada would be Kuwait.” – Rex Murphy, National Post, September 1.
The issue of virtue fronting malevolence could use a full page. However, today’s crisis is a policy failure that goes back to May of 2016 when the National Energy Board recommended that the Trudeau government approve the Trans Mountain expansion. New to office, Trudeau wanted to dither with regulatory requirements.