The Great American Oil and Gas Cash Grab

As Canadian politicians proclaim their intention to protect national sovereignty, American shareholders are extracting revenues from Canada’s oil and gas industry — and stiffing workers.

Last spring, while Donald Trump was levying tariffs on Canada and musing about making the country the “cherished” fifty-first state, the Liberal Party was deploying a strategy of political judo, redistributing the force of the American attack to secure an election victory. The conceit of the Liberal effort was premised on keeping national “Elbows Up,” resisting the Yankee menace through a series of measures designed to assert Canadian sovereignty and look abroad in an offer to hedge national bets on trade and defense.

It wasn’t that Canada wanted to decouple from the United States. How could the country