Seems the Canadians think Americans are suckers and the airing of a jingoistic, misleading and devastating anti-oilpatch, anti-China, anti-Canada ad during Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Tuesday night State of the Union Address marked a turning point of sorts in the battle over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. This is a fight that Canada may lose. The blame, should that occur, will rest squarely with Harper.
“Rarely has a policy so critical to a government’s overarching strategy been bungled so spectacularly.”