Can you give an example if how NAFTA works in Canadian natural gas exports to the US?
Here’s an example on how all of this plays out in real life. Right now, you know there’s a fair bit of natural gas development off the coast of Nova Scotia. Much of that supply is headed for the US markets. The pipeline infrastructure that’s been created to provide a conduit for those natural gas resources takes that gas to the United States and that’s been very controversial because there are many who have argued, including the province of New Brunswick (that’s going to become a champion of Canadian interests in all of this). Has championed the construction of a pipeline that would hook the Nova Scotian offshore supplies into the Canadian grid which right now ends in Quebec. So we’ve got this Canadian gas being produced off shore that really isn’t connected into the Canadian system, but really only flows into the US markets and wherever Canadian consumers might be located along the pipeline infrastructure. Oh! One of the problems that comes to light in arguing that was a mistake, that
