“We can’t keep asking our members to sacrifice. They are losing so much. They need those pipeline jobs—we have to offer them something.” The man making this plea was an executive of a major trade union, with many members in Canada’s oil and gas sector. Sitting in a large circle, sixty people listened and shifted in their chairs. What he was saying was undeniable. Everyone has a right to a decent job. And energy workers are hurting badly. But the people in the room knew too that the case for even one more pipeline was not a matter of bargaining with environmentalists; it was a doomed attempt to
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