[Former Proud Canadian]

"We need a booming economy. To do that he should somehow detach Canada fuel prices from world market prices. We have enough fuel to suit our own needs in Canada and we should be paying about fifty cents a liter. If he did that for a limited period of 5 years,our national economy would zoom.Its a small price to ask Canada’s oil companies to pay, they have made out like bandits for generations."

So, you want the rightful owners and producers of this product to relinquish their profits for "the greater good". I can't decide if that is fascism or communism. Help me out.

Canadians pay the world price for oil plus taxes. Distorting the free market for "the greater good" has never worked, will not work now, and will not work in the future.

[Candor7]

Nah , not religuish profits, just allocate a 5 year market control board for fuel just like has been done with dairy products in the past. Just a temporary 5 year injection of fuel into the hands of the people.Government could help fund the several pipelines that aid in this and we can get the pay back for 5 years. Some kind of arrangement like that. We do need an east west pipe line, across the country. The port of Saint John New Brunswick has been hollaring for a line for years.It has become a political embarassment that it has not been done.

With all of the incentives/breaks given to the oil industry in Canada over the years, they owe us a break so we can get things rolling, and we can create the necessary pipe line to do so.At the same time we can export from both coasts.

THe USA pipeline from Alberta to Texas is toast.Its not foregoing of profits. Its quid pro quo on a trans Canada pipe line.