There are a lot of Canadians puffing out their chests right now wanting to sell China everything. They seem to think that makes them feel better. They'll wise up when they think it through.

Think what through? We want to sell more stuff to China - so there's obviously no problem doing business with them. We're imposing all kinds of new trade barriers on Canada to make it harder for them to trade with the U.S. and to disrupt all the mutually-beneficial cross-border production processes that have been set up over the years. If we start taking steps to push U.S. refiners to take Venezuelan crude instead of Canadian crude, they'll just sell more to China and be happy to do so.

Besides - they've got a problem. The tribes don't want a pipeline running through BC to any of Canada's Western ports. And guess who owns most of British Columbia (or at least can tie anything up in knots with the "unceded land" claims in court).

Yeah, I don't think that will end up being a problem. The Canadian Supreme Court already rejected claims of aboriginal title when they were raised to block the TMX pipeline expansion back in 2020 - it's unlikely that the Cowichan decision survives in its current form as it heads up the appeal process.