Last week in Calgary, federal Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson said something that everyone in the industry believes — that “energy is the heart of the Canadian economy.”

We know Alberta is blessed with some of the world’s largest reserves of some of the world’s most valuable commodities. And our trading partners know it, too.

Over the past several months, South Korea, India, China, the United Kingdom, Germany and others have been asking the Alberta and federal governments for Canadian energy. The most significant barrier to our ability to answer the call is Canada’s approach to energy regulation.

We need to unwind a problem of our own making.

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Major pipeline projects connecting Alberta’s energy to international markets — such as Energy East and Northern Gateway — that could have been in operation now have instead been cancelled. The Trans Mountain Expansion Project took........

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