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As day follows night, the United States’ intervention in Venezuela triggered Canada’s favourite response to international calamity: a call for more pipelines. Not just any pipelines, of course. “Canada must immediately approve a pipeline to the Pacific Coast,” declared federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre in a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney a few days later. He was late to the party—the demand had already been made by Alberta premier Danielle Smith and captains of the oil patch, as well as the Globe and Mail’s editorial board. “A new oil pipeline to the Pacific coast isn’t...