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Speaker 1: Now we want to turn our attention solidue the Canadian

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Speaker 1: Fixed Income Conference. Here a Bloomberg World Headquarters. Jim Apprentice

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Speaker 1: joins us. Now he is wearing many hats these days.

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Speaker 1: He is the former Premier of Alberta. That's what we

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Speaker 1: call him, the Honorable Jim Prentice, Industry Advisor at the

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Speaker 1: Energy Group at Warburg Pincas and also UM he is

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Speaker 1: a Global Fellow at the Wilson Senators Canada Institute in Washington. Jim, welcome.

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Speaker 1: So we want to talk about oil and oil policy

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Speaker 1: in Canada. As we step back and look at this conference, though,

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Speaker 1: what is the big issue for investors in Canada, within Canada, Canada,

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Speaker 1: Canadians themselves and people who are looking to invest in Canada. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think I think the big issue UM, over the

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Speaker 1: longer term is making sure that Canadian energy resources are

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Speaker 1: connected to global markets and UM. You know, the development

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Speaker 1: of Canada's energy resources has depended very heavily on foreign investment,

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Speaker 1: in particular investment from American energy companies. UH. The challenge

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Speaker 1: that we face today is is, as I said at

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Speaker 1: the conference above the ground, it's it's not a question

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Speaker 1: of the quality of the resource base, whether you speak

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Speaker 1: of oil or natural gas. Canada's energy resources are amongst

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Speaker 1: the largest and most competitive in the world, but we

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Speaker 1: have become divorced from global markets and that's beginning to

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Speaker 1: affectum capital flows. It's beginning to affect the desire of

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Speaker 1: many of the larger low cost capital providers to stay

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Speaker 1: in the Canadian basin. And we're seeing even as commodity

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Speaker 1: prices begin to write themselves, we're seeing many of the

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Speaker 1: largest energy companies starting to exit Canada for the reason that,

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Speaker 1: you know, we're not focused enough on competitiveness, and we

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Speaker 1: also don't have access to global markets. So if we

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Speaker 1: if you had access to those global markets, what would

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Speaker 1: give us an example of what would be different today

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Speaker 1: about the Canadian energy sector. Well, the Canada does not

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Speaker 1: realize global prices for its resources. Our oil and our

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Speaker 1: not tro gas are sold into the continental marketplace. Canada

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Speaker 1: is at the end of the pipe. The pipelines are

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Speaker 1: often constricted in terms of their supply capacity, and so

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Speaker 1: the result is something called the differential, which is the

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Speaker 1: differential is the lower price that Canada realizes for its

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Speaker 1: resources when they're sold into the continental market place. Just

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Speaker 1: because that's how markets work. And so we need to

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Speaker 1: access global markets. This is Taking Stock with Pim Box

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Speaker 1: and Kathleen Hays on Bloomberg Radio. We are broadcasting live

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Speaker 1: from Bloomberg World Headquarters. We are at the fourth annual

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Speaker 1: Canadian Fixed Income Conference. It is sponsored by National Bank

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Speaker 1: of Canada Financial Markets. Joining us is the Honorable Jim Prentice.

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Speaker 1: He is industry Adviser for the Energy Group at Warburg Pinkus.

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Speaker 1: He is the former Premier of Alberta and former member

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Speaker 1: of the Canadian Parliament. Jim Prentice, One of the things

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Speaker 1: I want to get your thoughts about has to do

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Speaker 1: with the relationship between the value of the Canadian dollar,

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Speaker 1: which seemed to start at to fall around two thousand fifteen,

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Speaker 1: and it dropped about maybe at that time. Many people

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Speaker 1: thought that that would make Canadian investments much more appealing

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Speaker 1: to American or ex Canada companies, and yet Enbridge, um

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Speaker 1: Trans Canada they're the ones making the big deals, they're

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Speaker 1: coming south. What happened that? What happened with that decline

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Speaker 1: and the attractiveness of Canadian assets. That's a great question

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Speaker 1: and it speaks to exactly the issue. You know, you

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Speaker 1: would think that Canadian assets would be competitive because of

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Speaker 1: the pricing, as you say, of the dollar. In fact,

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Speaker 1: what's happened is that UM Canadian companies have been frustrated

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Speaker 1: that we can discuss, and so to pursue growth, they've

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Speaker 1: begun to look elsewhere and they've looked south to the

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Speaker 1: United States. They've redeployed their capital. Both of our major

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Speaker 1: Canadian pipeline companies have followed that strategy, deploying their capital

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Speaker 1: in Canada, because frankly, they've been unable to get approvals

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Speaker 1: with pipeline approvals? Is it mainly environmental groups who don't

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Speaker 1: want oil transported because they don't want more oil used.

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Speaker 1: Are there some native peoples who feel that this is

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Speaker 1: treading on sacred ground and therefore saying no, no, you

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Speaker 1: can't do this. Well, they've been both both challenges, and

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't suggest that these are easy issues.

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Speaker 1: We have to find UM permanent UH solutions that will

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Speaker 1: stand the test of time. But where we find ourselves

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Speaker 1: today is that Canada is one of the world's largest

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Speaker 1: Three point seven five billion million of that goes per

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Speaker 1: global markets at all. We have no pipelines or reports

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Speaker 1: that allows us to export Canadian oil and so um.

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Speaker 1: You know, increasingly our industry has become disconnected from global

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Speaker 1: there are a couple of decisions that we may look

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Speaker 1: global markets. There's pipelines for Kingdom Morgan, there's the Northern

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Speaker 1: Gateway Project, there's the Northwest Natural Gas Project, and then

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Speaker 1: TransCanada's got that Energy East pipeline. Which of those, if any,

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Speaker 1: do you believe that the Trudeau government will actually approve

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Speaker 1: so that we can see some results on the ground. Well,

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Speaker 1: it seems as though from the Prime Minister's comments just

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Speaker 1: headed towards an approval of the Kinder Morgan project, which

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Speaker 1: is a good thing and everyone should applaud that it'll

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Speaker 1: it will help, but the Kinder Morgan pipeline exits into

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Speaker 1: the Port of Coouver and so that port's unable to

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Speaker 1: to the Asia Pacific. I mean, certainly, it'll tie us

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Speaker 1: more more strongly to global markets. It will facilitate Canadian

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Speaker 1: oil moving down the west coast of North America. But

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Speaker 1: what Canada really needs to take advantage of its opportunity

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Speaker 1: is to ship a million to two million barrels a

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Speaker 1: most people don't realize that that so little of Canadian

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Speaker 1: I think many people understand that a lot of oil

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Speaker 1: so it ends up in someplace, not all of it

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Speaker 1: in the US. In terms of what kind of policy

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Speaker 1: changes would be needed, what are you pushing for. You've

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Speaker 1: got a book coming out, You've written op eds. What

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Speaker 1: what's the number one thing Canadas you down connect to

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Speaker 1: what does that mean pipelines. What appines to the West coast,

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Speaker 1: it means sports. It means that the government needs governments

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Speaker 1: plural need to be focused on our competitiveness and UM.

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Speaker 1: If we are going to uh simply be a continental

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Speaker 1: supplier realizing lower prices, we're beginning to see the consequences

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Speaker 1: of that, which is a lower level of activity, fewer jobs,

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Speaker 1: fewer revenue streams, less government revenue, less private income UM.

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Speaker 1: And so we need to access global markets and governments

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Speaker 1: need to focus on that. You have done stints not

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Speaker 1: Development in the Stephen Harper's cabinets. He's got a more

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Speaker 1: to accomplish A who do you want to have the

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Speaker 1: dialogue with directly, let's say, in the next six to

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Speaker 1: here's what we're gonna do. Well, so you know, certainly

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Speaker 1: industry is is focused on this UM there's a new

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Speaker 1: Canadian government. They're sensitive to these issues. They in particular

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Speaker 1: have a sensitivity to environmental issues and working with first

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Speaker 1: Canada's national government, working together with the provincial governments, will

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Speaker 1: are critical to the solution. And that's part of what

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Speaker 1: the book that I've written over the course of this

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Speaker 1: winter really deals with Canada Energy and the environment. Is

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Speaker 1: the name of the book. It's coming out after the

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Speaker 1: first year. That's the working title. But the hardest thing

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Speaker 1: agree on the title with your publisher. Well, and titles

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Speaker 1: are important, well, Jim Pretis. We'll look forward to you

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Speaker 1: having to come again on taking Stock when we can

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Speaker 1: talk about that book. Wonderful to be here, Thank you. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Income Conference here at Bloomberg World headquarters. Just taking a

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Speaker 1: Bear said to propose improved Monsanto offer of a hundred

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