We need to be a serious nation.
The truth is we should be selling energy to Europe to alleviate their dependence on Russian oil. We should have done this 15 years ago, then 10 years ago, then five years ago and now we should finally do it today. We can reinvest profits into a number of areas including building out green economies of scale and expanding our military’s capacity. It has become abundantly clear that no one is coming to save us.
We should export LNG to Japan and other democratic counties in Asia and Europe. Our natural resources will be used, by us or by others. We should also build additional pipelines to the U.S. so we can get fair market value for our energy. And use some of these profits to establish refineries in Canada, recognizing it as the national security risk it is.
These actions will not only make the world a safer place and make our country stronger but it will give us more standing on the world stage to expedite issues that are important to us.
It will require a steady hand with an emphasis on pragmatism in place of virtue signalling.
It is the necessary work to protect our sovereignty in the short and long term. And the work should have started yesterday.
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