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What Canada needs to be energy independent
On this episode of WONK, host Amanda Lang talks to Jay Khosla and Susannah Pierce about energy prices, pipelines and Canada’s missing links
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Published:April 22, 2026
The conflict with Iran has raised a lot of questions about Canadian oil, gas and energy. If we produce so much of this stuff, why are we at the mercy of bottlenecks in the Strait of Hormuz? Jay Khosla is executive director of economic and energy policy at the Public Policy Forum. Susannah Pierce is the former CEO of Shell Canada and also led the development of the LNG Canada terminal. They join host Amanda Lang to talk about strategic reserves, east-west pipelines and the missing electricity link.
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