Global News published this video item, entitled “Line 5 pipeline: How did we get here and what Michigan’s demand to shut down means for Canada” – below is their description.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s demand for the taps to be turned off by Wednesday — a promise she made when she campaigned for governor in 2018.
Enbridge declined to shut down part of its pipeline and business leaders in Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin have joined forces with their Canadian counterparts and Canada’s federal government in a legal fight to prevent Whitmer’s order.
Line 5 moves more than half a million barrels a day of Western Canada crude oil to refineries in Ontario, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
David Akin reports how we got here and what that order could mean for Canada.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
Gretchen Esther Whitmer is an American politician serving as the 49th governor of Michigan since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2001 to 2006 and in the Michigan Senate from 2006 to 2015.
On October 8, 2020, the Federal Bureau of Investigation thwarted a militia group’s kidnapping plot against her.
Ontario is a province in east-central Canada that borders the U.S. and the Great Lakes. It’s home to Ottawa, Canada’s capital, known for Parliament Hill’s Victorian architecture and the National Gallery, featuring Canadian and indigenous art. Toronto, Ontario’s capital, is home to the 553m-high CN Tower, with expansive views from its revolving restaurant.
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, and Appalachian regions of the United States.
