Bring western oil to Quebec

If you believe certain environmentalist groups, Enbridge’s plan to reverse the flow of the pipeline that runs from Sarnia, Ont. to Montreal in order to bring western oil to Quebec is a bad idea.

The oilsands are dirty, they say, and pipelines are dangerous. They want governments to block that plan.

Of all the positions taken by the anti-oil movement in Canada, this must rate as one of the most irrational.

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Quebec money looks to Alberta’s oil and gas scene

As the nation debated the good and bad of foreign investment from Asian state-owned companies this month, Montreal investment executive Jean-Guy Desjardins was on a plane to Calgary to lock up a major acquisition.

During the trip, the chairman, chief executive officer and chief investment officer of Fiera Capital Corp., one of Quebec’s largest investment managers, met with his 20 new staff in Calgary at Canadian Wealth Management Group Inc., the company he purchased from Paris-based Société Générale, to “celebrate the beginning of our marriage.”

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