VIVE LE QUEBEC Quebec holds all the cards in oil industry's plan to reach eastern markets with western crude

摘要

Once again, Quebec holds Canadian unity—or at least a method of making the country more unified—in the palm of one hand, while handling a multi-billion dollar pan of yearly equalization payments in the other. This time, it doesn't involve that province declaring a referendum on whether it should remain within Confederation. This time, it's about Quebec allowing or disallowing Alberta's energy sectorto pipe crude oil and bitumen to refineries in La belle province and perhaps onward to refineries in New Brunswick.