actually, peter mackay is wrong (as usual) and mike pompeo is actually right.

what pompeo is talking about is a chinese proposal to ship tar sands oil to asia through the arctic, an idea that has been floated for a while due to difficulty getting through bc, and a desire to avoid working through the united states.

we can debate aspects of this. i am opposed to all pipeline expansion; the united states wants to steal the oil; my government wants to sell it to china at higher prices than it can get in the us market. these are competing interests, no doubt.

but, to suggest that pompeo was making things up is disingenuous. the chinese have, in fact, heavily infested in tar sands infrastructure, and they're not doing it for our benefit.

https://canadians.org/blog/did-canada-china-fipa-influence-trudeaus-decision-buy-kinder-morgan-pipeline