Tariff Threat Spurs Canada to Rethink Limits on Oil Pipelines

Almost every day since the expansion of Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline was completed in May, a tanker laden with oil sands crude shipped through the line has passed under Vancouver’s Lions Gate Bridge en route to refineries around the Pacific.

Those tankers, bound for China and Japan among other markets, mark a significant shift for Canada, which has long been stuck exporting its vast flows of oil solely to the US. And with President Donald Trump’s tariff threats highlighting the risk of that dependence, the success of the C$34 billion ($24 billion) Trans Mountain expansion is stoking Canada’s desire to ...