Canada is too dependent on U.S. pipelines and power grids, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said yesterday. Wilkinson said Canadians were left shaken by a threatened 10 percent U.S. tariff on oil, natural gas and hydroelectricity exports.

“Certainly in areas like oil we flow almost all of it this way,” Wilkinson told an energy conference in Washington, D.C. Canada has no national power grid and a limited all-domestic transcontinental pipeline network.

“When all of a sudden Canada is treated more like an adversary than a partner it did shake every Canadian,” said Wilkinson. “I think you saw that in some of the patriotic expressions that came out in the aftermath of the decision to impose tariffs.”

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