Opinion: Ottawa opens one door for Alberta oil but slams another

As virtually everyone knows by now, the Trudeau government decided to address Canada’s inability to get pipelines built — from Alberta to tidewater — the old-fashioned way. It nationalized the last viable pipeline project, the twinning of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline, and paid $4.5 billion for the existing pipeline.
With that purchase, we have been assured, at least some of Alberta’s oil will access markets in Asia where it might command higher prices. If tha