Who Can Canada Count On?
Just a few days after signing a historic agreement that will see a Canadian company build a massive pipeline to flow natural gas from Alaska to Alberta, Gov. Sarah Palin says she is working to strengthen relations with Canada, and Barack Obama should too.
Palin spoke to CTV’s Canada AM from Fairbanks, Alaska, just after signing the deal with TransCanada pipeline.
She granted the company US$500 million to plan the pipeline, with construction set to begin in 2011.
“I want to grow the relationship we have with Canada,” Palin said.
“I know Alaska is doing all we can to grow that relationship and we’ve gotta have faith that the newly elected administration will see the light on that and work very hard to increase and strengthen the relationship between our two countries.”
She said Alaskans and Canadians have much in common, from a shared love of hockey to an appreciation for the outdoors, hunting and fishing.
Palin predicted the newly signed 2,700-kilometre pipeline project will boost U.S. domestic energy supply by 7 per cent and reduce U.S. dependency on foreign oil sources.
“This has been long hoped for, prayed about, wished for, for really about 50 years here in Alaska,” Palin said.
She said Alaska has vast reserves of oil and natural gas that are virtually being “warehoused” at the moment.
“It’s time to tap those, throw them into our own hungry markets so we can be less reliant on foreign sources and less beholden to some regimes that control energy that we import. Some of those regimes don’t like America,” she said.
Obama was ‘wrong’
... discussing the suggestion from the Obama team during the campaign that he would make changes to the North American Free Trade Agreement.
“I think he was wrong to send a message that he would unilaterally want to go in and renegotiate,” Palin said.
“I do not support that, but I think…he’s going to see some conditions that will allow him to temper his position even on that.”
NAFTA, she said, has resulted in jobs in both the U.S. and Canada, and must be protected in order to keep both countries’ economies “revving.”
December 9th, 2008 at 11:31 am
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December 9th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Well, Ms. Palin just blew her chances of running for the leadership of the Liberals, NDP, or Bloc.
December 9th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
She is going to make such a great President!
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