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Canada produces more oil than it burns. So why does a war on the far side of the world empty your wallet at the pump within twenty-four hours — on fuel already refined, from oil already pumped, that never left the country? This dispatch answers that, and then asks a harder question: now that Canadian taxpayers are financing a $40-billion pipeline, what does the citizen get back?
The answer to the first is a choice we never made in the open. Canada is a price-taker — our pump tracks the global benchmark because we never built the wall between the world price and the home pump that some producer nations build. The answer to the second is an empty chair. The new pipeline deal carved out a return for the province, for First Nations, for the shareholders, and for the treasury — and nothing for the household at the pump. When private capital won’t touch a project earning $60 billion in profits and the public purse has to carry it, the question of what the public gets back stops being rhetorical.
And the timing is grave. For reasons we lay out in full — a strait the world forgot but that is still choking, an OPEC buffer cut by a third, a risk premium now baked into the U.S. government’s own forecast, a supertanker fleet that can’t grow for three years, and pipelines that end at a coast where oil still needs a scarce ship — today’s price may be closer to the future of fuel than to its past. The peak may ease. The floor has risen, and it does not fall back the way it climbed.
So the message to every Canadian household is plain, and it is offered to steady, not to frighten: adjust to the new number. Budget for the floor, not for a drop that isn’t coming. And know it didn’t have to sit this high. We run it through the AIG filter — public money should buy a public return — and land on a fair trade that is not radical at all, because other nations already run the tool: a fuel stabilization fund, funded from export earnings, that caps how fast a global spike reaches the pump. If the public carries the risk, the public earns a break at the pump. Every other party at the table understood that. Only the citizen’s chair was left empty.
Written from love, in service of the record. Walk with the word. 🕯️
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