Elizabeth May: The Great Pipeline of China Project and its menace to Canada
Channel: David Langer
Date: 03/03/2012

At a March 2, 2012 Green Party of Canada Town Hall, Elizabeth May expressed her concern about the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Project. Here are some excerpts from Elizabeth's speech:

Why are we shipping bitumen crude out of Canada instead of refining it within Canada?  

We're becoming a resource based colony for China. It's their oil, they want it to get to their refineries .. it's not our oil, to go to our refineries; this is a very substantial change, geopolitically.. China managed to get itself a seat on the board of Syncrude, Syncrude produces 20% of the oil out of the oilseeds and for a 9% stake in Syncrude, Sinopec, which is owned and operated by the government of.. China in Beijing, gets to say you don't process that crude here, we're shipping it to China. So we have some very large political questions at stake about Canadian sovereignty, Canadian national interests and the constant repetition by Joe Oliver and Stephen Harper and Peter Kent and all of them that building that pipeline and sending those supertankers out, in violation of a moratorium against oil tankers on the B.C. coast that's been in place for 40 years, they're acting like it doesn't exist.