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It has not been much noticed, amid all the noise, that if Premier Jason Kenney turns down the taps to B.C., he has to do the same thing to the rest of Canada.

That is not a fake fact. It’s the inescapable nature of Bill 12, Preserving Canada’s Economic Prosperity Act, which Kenney’s cabinet proclaimed Tuesday as its first action.

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The stated intention of Bill 12 is to support value and prices by controlling shipments. In pursuit of this end, there can be no hint of discrimination against any region or province.

The NDP wrote it that way for good reason. Any sign of province-specific cuts to shipments guarantees defeat in the courts.

The day Kenney does hit the taps — and I think it’s very possible — Ontario and Quebec will take at least some of the hit, along with B.C.

Canada will snap awake damn quick.

Almost all of Ontario’s oil — about 400,000 barrels per day — arrives by pipeline from Western Canada.