The survey, conducted by Nanos Research for CTV News and The Globe and Mail, found more than two-thirds of people in the Prairies support putting tariffs on oil, natural gas and electricity.
“Well, I think it’s a garbage poll,” Smith said at an unrelated press conference on Tuesday.
“What if we were to ask Albertans or Canadians this: ‘Would you support export tariffs if it meant the U.S. would retaliate by shutting off Line 5 and leaving Ontario and Quebec without gasoline or aviation fuel at all?’ I think you’d get a different answer.”
Back when I was a kid there were pumpjacks all over the southwestern portion of Manitoba, dotting the sunflower fields.
And we still pump oil today.
Manitoba has two oil and gas producing sedimentary basins with potential for oil and gas production, southwest Manitoba and the Hudson Bay lowlands.
Producible oil was discovered in southwestern Manitoba in the 1950’s. This area has produced oil since 1951.
All Manitoba’s current oil production is located in southwest Manitoba along the northeastern flank of the Williston Basin, a sedimentary basin that also occupies portions of southern Saskatchewan, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana.
Manitoba produced 2,201,087.5 m3 of oil in 2020.
https://www.manitoba.ca/iem/petroleum/oilfacts/index.html