Alberta could pull all the installation and operating permits for American-built equipment in the O&G industry, in effect forcing the oil companies to buy made-in-AB/Canada items only for O&G service. It would be quite legal too and not violate the USMC deal - the companies could still buy American but it would be pointless because as the constitutionally-appointed regulator/manager of the AB oilpatch the province can ban those items from being put into operation. Alberta AFAIK is not a signatory to the trade deals, the feds are, and can therefore dictate what can be installed and put into use in the refineries/upgraders/pump & compressor stations/etc. This would would hurt US manufacturers but too bad for them. There's no mercy in retaliation.
This won't happen for three reasons though. One, the oil companies would freak out and Kenney always listens to them above all other concerns. Two, he's a capitalist and free-trader at heart and doing something that draconian would violate his entire ideological belief system. And, three, it's in his own cynical political interest to make it look like "it's all Trudeau's fault!", instead of his own. And it is his fault, almost entirely, for doubling down and gambling that Trump was going to win the election. Which was idiotic, to place the fate of the pipeline in a belief that a POTUS who never polled more than 50% in approval ratings even once in the last four years was going to be our saviour.
Will try to post again tomorrow. Take care, eh!
