Canada approved a new pipeline to expand the country’s Pacific oil exports, part of efforts to reduce its trade dependency on the US.
The decision — which comes amid a broader reversal of Ottawa’s climate agenda — follows US President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on Canadian imports, the vast majority of which head south across the border, including 91% of its oil.
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney has vowed to double non-US exports within the next decade, a decision that is pushing Ottawa closer to China and India despite recent tensions with the two Asian giants, The Washington Post reported. “This is not a transition,” the Canadian government wrote in its latest budget proposal, “it is a rupture.”
