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Within a day of UCP leader Jason Kenney winning an Alberta majority government and extending an olive branch to Quebec, its Premier Francois Legault replied by stating that there is no social acceptability for a new pipeline to cross Quebec helping Alberta get its oil to market.

Meanwhile, PM Justin Trudeau delayed a final decision on the expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline by a month to June 18.

With an upcoming October election, some experts feel this decision won’t be made prior for fear of ticking off Liberal support in British Columbia where they have 17 seats in the House of Commons.

There is no thought towards building support in Alberta, however, where Liberals only have three MPs.

As always in politics, party before country.

It’s the only way to explain why a country sitting on the world’s third largest oil reserves would import some 87,000 barrels of oil per day from Saudi Arabia.

Not only is a tanker of oil hauled daily from 9,625 km away, but from a country with archaic human rights laws. . . . contd.