The editor:
The Justin Trudeau Government has failed Western Canada yet again, this time through their mismanagement and failure to champion for the Canadian energy industry.
The cancellation of TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline is bad news for constituents in southeast Saskatchewan. The town of Moosomin was counting on this privately-funded, nation-building project to create much needed jobs within the community.
Now, because of Trudeau’s unwillingness to support our energy industry, TransCanada has cancelled Energy East, negatively affecting the middle class Canadians that the prime minister claims to support.
There will be a trickle-down effect on the region as well. The area’s municipalities and towns, as well as the cities of Estevan and Weyburn will also suffer the consequences of Trudeau’s failure to champion this project and Canadian energy as a whole. Not only will there be jobs lost in the oil industry, but also the communities’ service industry.
The energy sector has faced a significant downturn in recent years and instead of advocating for its success, Trudeau introduced new regulations on Canadian energy products, making it much more difficult for these projects to be approved.
It is clear that Trudeau’s blatant lack of support for our energy industry played a major role in the decision to cancel the Energy East pipeline, furthering Canada’s unnecessary reliance on foreign oil imports.
As conservatives, we believe that supporting the middle class is more than just a talking point. We believe in supporting policies and projects that actually help the middle class by creating jobs and prosperity so that Canadians can create more opportunities for their children and their grandchildren.
When the Conservative Party forms government, we hope TransCanada will try once more to advance this nation-building project that creates thousands of Canadian jobs, and helps export Canadian oil to Canadian provinces and around the world.
Robert Kitchen
Estevan
Souris-Moose Mountain MP
