Can the Blue Jays go all the way this year?

“Everyone wants to say this at the Petroleum Club, but no one wants to say it in public,” confides Bryan Gould, Shell Canada M&A veteran and now executive chair and founder of Aspenleaf Energy, a private Canadian light oil and gas producer. The only politically viable path forward on energy, he tells me — however unpalatable for Prime Minister Mark Carney, given the worldview in his book Values — is to stop the games: strip away the barriers and let the free market work. “This vilification of the extraction of the materials that are the foundation for our society, this has to...