Saudi oil money comes back to us in car bombs and radical jihad. Canadian oil money comes back to us in vacationing Albertans and British Columbians getting medical treatment. Which should we prefer?
Hmmm, that is a tough call. Bombs, or Canadian tourists...
Have you ever dealt with Canadians? For years I served them as retail customers, then I married one of them. Can’t they just stay home, send us their money?
How do you know that if we start buying canadian oil that canada won’t join OPEC?
You said it all.
More insidiously, it comes back in 9.5% of NewsCorp (Saudi Prince bin Talal) and 20% of the NASDAQ (Dubai), among other Trojan horses.
And in a couple more years watch out for Newfoundland oil really making a splash on its citizens as that province is really turning the corner.