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David Richards: If Ottawa Wants Line 5 to Stay Open, Why Is It Dismissing Energy Ventures in the Rest of Canada?

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David Richards: If Ottawa Wants Line 5 to Stay Open, Why Is It Dismissing Energy Ventures in the Rest of Canada?
A section of Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline at a pump station in Mackinaw City, Mich., in October 2016. AP Photo/John Flesher
Sen. David Richards
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Why is the Line 5 pipeline so important? Why are we invoking treaties and clauses in treaties, and pleading with Michigan to recognize treaties in order to keep this line open and the oil flowing?
Sen. David Richards
Sen. David Richards
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David Adams Richards is an award-winning novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and poet based in New Brunswick. He has won the Governor General’s Literary Award in both the fiction and non-fiction categories and he is a winner of the Giller Prize. He is a member of the Order of New Brunswick and the Order of Canada, and was appointed to the Senate in 2017.
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