Editor:
Re: Trans Mountain deal makes no financial sense, NOW Letters, May 2
David Huntley’s letter misses the point entirely.
The nationalization of Trans Mountain was scarcely an ordinary business deal. It was part of a federal strategy to keep the Province of Alberta on board Canada’s international climate change agenda - a strategy now in tatters owing to the defeat of premier Notley’s relatively conciliatory regime.
Can’t imagine that a "complete and transparent accounting" of this particular piece of the puzzle would add all that much to our understanding of the underlying question - deadlock between (and among) the governments of Canada and (by now) most provinces on energy-related issues, which make Ottawa’s claim to speak on behalf of the country on the international stage increasingly problematc.
Al Seager, Burnaby
