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Trudeau did exactly the opposite. He spent every penny in new revenues, by increasing the cost of government at almost three times the combined rate of inflation and population growth. Trudeau’s promise of three “small” $10 billion dollar deficits quickly became $66 billion of new debt to pay for his big-government fancies.

Even worse, there is no end in sight. Under Mr. Trudeau’s plan, Canadians will not see pay-as-you-go government until 2045 –and that was Finance Canada’s projection before the trade war began.

Meanwhile, Trudeau made us even more dependent on the United States; by arbitrarily deep-sixing a duly authorized pipeline, Northern Gateway, which would have taken our oil to the Pacific. He then erected so many barriers to TransCanada’s Energy East project that the company abandoned its plan to build a pipeline from Alberta to the Atlantic (and invested in Mexico instead).

Investors received the signals: ‘In Mr. Trudeau’s Canada, your money’s not safe.’ That is why Kinder Morgan recently decided that the best, safest choice was to sell the Trans Mountain pipeline to Canadian taxpayers, and join the exodus.

In sum, Trudeau blocked our oil from the Pacific and the Atlantic. This cemented American control of 99% of our oil exports – allowing the U.S. to underpay us by billions of dollars for our product. Then he gave $4.5 billion to a Texas company for a 65-year-old pipeline we already had. That company is now using Canadian tax dollars to build pipelines in the United States that will compete with Canadian industry.