You don't realize, it is not Trans-Canada’s oil.
They don't buy, sell or own oil or natural gas.
They are a pipeline company, they move other people's products, not their own.
They are more comparable to a train company, or a trucking company. They could not export the oil if they wanted to, it isn't theirs.
They move oil/gas etc owned by ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and the like.
Thanks for the comment.
Every global international corporation has but one objective - corp. profits at any cost. In my long term view conservatism is not corporatism. USA conservatism is now first about ensuring sovereignty of the USA, the Constitution, and the US people first and sound fiscal policies.
Policy and corporate profits and temp jobs building pipelines etc are no where to be found in the USA Constitution except as the PR message of lobbyists and corporatists. They might as well call the pipeline company Trans World because that’s where their loyalties lie. Politicians always favor the argument that benefits their moneyed benefactors, and not America citizens.
Corporatism version 1950s was about the USA first because US corporations were the USA (not China or Canada) in 1950. In 2011 that is totally different. Corporatism 2011 is about stealing the sovereignty of nations and profiting from it. Forget politics and forget Parties. The corp. agenda is not the citizens agenda. The corps make global profits on the citizens loss.