Special to The Globe and MailOPEC and Russia may have struck a deal to cut a record 9.7 million barrels of oil from the market, but Canada’s oil and gas companies still have to deal with the lowest oil prices they’ve seen since the turn of the century.
It’s also a near-perfect echo of the messaging coming from federal Conservatives such as Andrew Scheer and Peter MacKay, who have both apparently decided that losing one election on this issue isn’t enough. That echo is a familiar one, as CAPP has defined itself under the leadership of Tim McMillan, a former conservative Saskatchewan politician, by its strident opposition to the Liberal government.
CAPP is, of course, welcome to continue operating as a proxy for conservatives in Canada. But its members ought to be asking whether that’s worth the price they’re paying – especially when CAPP’s obsession with the government in Ottawa is blinding it to the threat that could eventually be posed by the one in Washington.
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