now, canada has not been a party to all of that.canada often refrains from some american aggression, largely from par it pacing in the war in iraq but canada is a steads fast partner in the united states in all kinded of militarism and violence. years of invasion and occupation in afghanistan, a bombing campaign of libya that left that country in utter and complete sham bells and now was the canadian press itself is calling a new war in iraq which is already spilled over into syria. now, you may have a lot of different views about all of those policies if you may believe those policies are charitable acts of nation-building generosity. and maybe they are. that's a debate that people can have and have had. but there is a huge part of the world, hundreds of millions of people, that regard those words much, much differently. they sigh theme as acts of aggression and militarism. they see the innocent children and the women and the innocent men who are killed continuously by those policies, on top of which the participation of canada in

because the president of canada, the prime minister of canada, the prime minister of the province have told us that. of all the different parties, it's unquestioned truth, they are going to develop this resource. and they are going to send this resource through their avenues out to either china -- excuse me, could i have order -- they are going to develop this resource. this debate isn't going to stop them or start them. number two. if we have to develop partnerships for progress, which no country, even as powerful as the united states is, can hardly do anything completely by ourselves, we do lots of great things and have since the moment we were formed. but we've always had partners, even in the revolutionary war. france came to help us and the netherlands lent us money, a tinily little country that could fit inside of louisiana. we've always had partners. so the question here for this debate is the first point, this resource will be developed and will go on the market to the world. period. second point. america needs partners in our energy production. who is the best partner we could

canada has not been a party to that. canada will refrain from some aggression.gely they are not entirely refraining from participating in a war in iraq but canada is a steadfast ally and partner of the united states and all kinds of militarism and violence. the years of invasion and occupation in afghanistan, a bombing campaign in libya that left that country in utter and complete shambles and now what the canadian press itself is calling a new war in iraq which has spilled over into syria. you may have a lot of different views about those policies. he may believe that those policies are charitable acts of nation-building generosity and maybe they are. that is a debate that people can have and have had but there's a huge part of the world, hundreds of millions of people that required those wars much differently. they see them as acts of aggression and militarism. they see the innocent children and the women and innocent men who are killed continuously by those policies on which the participation of canada and things like surveillance or rendition literally picki

canada lost her innocence on wednesday. and we hear that we have to say good-bye to the old normal because now it's welcome to the new normal. we are told that things just don't feel the same any more. all of this just gave me this growing pervasive sense that this was not the time for this conversation. and then i thought about some other things. i thought about bill c-13 first introduced years ago as a lawful access legislation, then called the protecting children from online predators act and people were not so happy as that. then it was rebranded as the anti-cyber bullying law. whatever you call it this is a piece of legislation that makes it easy for law enforcement to call up your cell phone provider, to call up your telephone provider and get information about you without a warrant. which they do now but this o would make it legal. 73% of canadians oppose this bill and privacy advocates and commissioners are against it. the supreme court has ruled it's probably constitution. this past week it passed in the house of c

>> it certainly is necessary to bring oil from canada down to here. from the back an to continue to increase and will carry some in time. people are always saying these infrastructure projects won't be any good right right, they could have been studied -- started five years ago. people keep saying that. if keystone xl isn't built and i firmly believe it will, then in five years people would say, well, it's not worth it now we should have started five years ago. well, five years from now, that is when we need to start building. >> but the oil isn't going to the united states, is it? >> well, the oil would come to it the united states and be refined, it would be -- >> then it would be sold -- >> it would being mixed with our light crude and some might be used here some would be exported. if we export it, we still make money from exporting it. we make more money in the oil comes here and is refined and he can ported than if it goes somewhere else. and it is refined and exported elsewhere. and some of it we would use here and some we would export but get

that involves canada. the very first story from the snowden archive that i was able to report that specifically involved canada, i mean, all the stories involved canada in the sense that they're all about the internet and we all share the same internet, but the first story i was able to report from the surveillance that pertained to canada was back in october of last year and reported this story with the large brazilian television network, globo. and what this story revealed, it used documents from your version of the n.s.a., which is csac, and what it revealed is that csec had been spying on the communications of the brazilian ministry of mines and energy. which oh, so constituent dently just happens to be the -- coincidentally just happens to be the agency in brazil of greatest interest the to the canadian timber and logging industry. when i reported this story, before i reported it, i knew it was going to be a huge story in brazil. in part because they're very concerned about the way in which surveillan

in canada, where it begins, many have a favourable view. daniel lack has more. >> there hasn't been the high profile widespread opposition to keystone here that you have seen in the united states over the past several years. there's a number of reasons for that. right here in alberta, the petroleum industry is the mainstay of the economy. it's no exaggeration to say that this prosperous province owes what it has to the oil industries, whether it's the tar sands or conventional methods. keystone is strongly supported. political parties, almost all are g behind the promote saying it brings good union jobs to the country, and this is when the country needs those. there are environmental groups that range concerns, and they point out that canada is not yet meeting its greenhouse gas emission targets, agreeing that in copenhagen, climate change, they say, it not taken seriously by the government in canada. nonetheless, on both sides of the spectrum people like to see a decision that the uncertainties should be removed. it's been seven years sinc

canada lost her innocence on wednesday. and we hear that we have to say good-bye to the old normal because now it's welcome to the new normal. we are told that things just don't feel the same any more. all of this just gave me this growing pervasive sense that this was not the time for this conversation. and then i thought about some other things. i thought about bill c-13 first introduced years ago as a lawful access legislation, then called the protecting children from online predator's act and people were not so happy as that. then it was rebranded as the anti-cyber bullying law. whatever you call it this is a piece of legislation that makes it easy for law enforcement to call up your cell phone provider, to call up your telephone provider and get information about you without a wasn't. which they do now but this o would make it legal. 73% of canadians oppose this bill and privacy advocates and commissioners are against it. the supreme court has ruled it's probably constitution. this past week it passed in the house of c

that is the same thing in the tar sands in canada. the toxic mining and delusion of the tar sands is creating cancer in the indigenous peoples off the charts. that is how kalamazoo river has been destroyed. leaky pipelines. poisons.ndustry we need to figure out how to get ourselves off of oil as fast as possible. host: your response? guest: police we are in agreement about the opposition of the offer oil part and not be pipeline. it is a pipeline that will help achieve and how america achieve it rolls towards energy security. are alsomic impacts abroad. by increasing our relationship via trade with canada. the opportunities are tremendous. that is why you see support be consistent along the ways for this project. usa today came out this week with another poll confirming the vast support that americans have more -- more editorial boards. cannot this week. the opposition about staying in the ground or attacks on this project on the merits have been called absurd by any of the experts involved. -- they know the game is about politics. om

canada. working together, with canada, so that we don't have to get energy from venezuela or from the middle east or other parts of the world. we can produce it right here at home. and so that's not only a vitally important issue in terms of our economy and being competitive in a global economy -- because energy is truly a foundational sector for all the other industry sectors. when we have low-cost, dependable energy, we are more competitive as a country, but it really is a national security issue. i see the good senator from vermont is on the floor. he's got a bill that deals with how we handle surveillance, covert information, given the terrorist threat that we face. and it's important that we do that well, but one of the ways to truly strengthen our country is to make sure that we're energy-secure, to make sure that we don't have to get oil from the middle east, to help our friend and allies in europe so they're not dependent on russia for energy when putin engages in the kind of aggressi

we never took over canada. so the canadians and the british capital 2 1/2 weeks beforehand. we had a great victory to balance it out. a few months later, february, february 16th, 1815, the war of 1812 officially ends. the treaty of gent is signed on christmas eve, 1814. it takes a while to get here. and it's signed off on the 16th and the war officially ends. and in a way, the war ends as a tie. we never took over canada. so the canadians and the british can legitimately say they won the war of 1812, but not entirely because they hoped they gained perhaps the illinois and indiana territories and they did not gain that. so we can legitimately say that we held our own. the united states really in a way gained what it hoped to gain, a sense of honor, a sense of respect from other nations. and we certainly didn't win the british hands down but we certainly fought them to a tie and that was respectable. it was a war that disunited us, but then in the last few minutes, united everyone suddenly and a perception of vic

i'm not in canada. the pipeline to -- i assume no, canadian politicians will do what canadian politicians do when they feel snubbed by the united states, which is to sort of jump up and down and all sorts of nasty things and go on with the relationship. absolutely. i think the, i think the it looks to me, i mean, the last two federal cab b innocent members, five years, every federal cabinet minister that came to washington made it a point of talking about keystone. the last two that have come have not said anything about keystone until they were asked about it. normally, this is too subtle to be b a change in strategy. froms or whether ottawa's finally got the message as senator kerry -- nebraska, you alluded to this, some sense we write about it all the time. every story i write as well, it will be a little longer, longer. but it is plain that it has come up in debates -- on the statewide race, the candidates are very much opposed to the pipeline, the republicans are very much in favor. in congressman

we just could not get her in the press in canada and all. it was the most devastating thing had never been a part of because she put up $80,000 of her own money to try to run it up against. and if we had just met the march 3rd deadline we might have had a shot at polling in people who would have voted. while working on her video i got my video editing software ended up being hacked by the chinese. i am still not sure if it was that chinese government. it was that chinese ip address. i saw of not turn the car driver because i don't know if i should. but long story short, i am not actually involved in harassment. my question is, what do you think police, the domestic police because in my travels coming up in january, and i will find out more, some of the stuff they did even in my case, the supreme court has now ruled the you're not supposed to be getting a ip addresses directly from the service provider. like, i guess, to have you found that the police themselves are more pervasive in terms of spy techniques for the federal level or national l

>> canada is actually doing pretty well from that. stossel: canada is.t's the reason canada's economy has done pretty well. now, president obama said he'll make it easier and faster for high skilled workers to get in. wouldn't that be a good thing? let's go to matt welch and kmele foster and alex of the cato institute. that's good news right. >> good news, but we'll have to see the exact details on this. this is the bargaining chip forever. republicans like to expand immigration. so democrats have been reluctant to expand it, they think they'll never get a deal on undocumented people. the eu is a big free trade of people zone. you're a polish plumber, you can move to england. all around there. they've seen incredible gains in prosperity widely shared all throughout the eu -- stossel: europe isn't doing so well. >> they're doing better than they would be. it's economics 101. it's not just from having high-skilled workers. it's them coming here with their skills. being workers -- they work alongside with other americans. from this being consumers and buyin

we never took over canada. so the canadians and the british can legitimately say they won the war of 1812, but not entirely because they hoped they gained perhaps the illinois and indiana territories and they did not gain that. so we can legitimately say that we held our own. the united states really in a way gained what it hoped to gain, a sense of honor, a sense of respect from other nations. and we certainly didn't win the british hands down but we certainly fought them to a tie and that was respectable. it was a war that disunited us, but then in the last few minutes, united everyone suddenly and a perception of victory. and it's that confidence, the national anthem and the american flag came from the war of 1812, it came from the events that happened right here at ft. mchenry in 1814. the way we see the flag today was born on these ramparts in september 1814 through the words of francis scott key. every american should visit ft. mchenry and you'll feel differently when you sing the star-spangled banner. >>

his father had defected to canada when he was a small boy. they had only been able to meet once in cuba. the only place they could get visas. the father said come back with me to candidate. he got to serve as an mp in one of the first three polish parliaments. sadly his father was not applied to see it. as we were talking he was talking about the impact that had been made on him as a teenager, sorry, as a boy by john paul ii first visit to poland. as a polish pope. he told me something i never heard before. you said the holy father never once directly criticized the communist authorities. he said he didn't have to. he just offered something better. that i think should be the creed of conservatives. just offer something better. i saw on the news as i was coming here to pick up a jihadi volunteer, so he decided he was so alienated by this country is going to take up arms with those monstrous blasphemous people in iraq and should we have a similar problem in unit can do. 200 boys draw up a been so repulsed by what ever it was that they found aro

canada, one of america's most important trade pefrz.s the president risking some real tension with a very pipeline? >> i don't think so. and for two reasons. first of all, as you mentioned, there is just too much at stake here between the u.s. andcapped. trans canada, the company that wants to build the pipeline said the time is now. let's get this over with. but when you consider the fact that part of that relationship between the united states, part of what minds us in the economic relationship is, we are canada's biggest customer for oil. we import a lot of oil from canada as it stands right now. just to go back to something michael said, i mean this issue got into the political realm. when it gets into the political reasons. it's not about how many barrels down. it's about staking out a position, a hot-button issue that gets obvious striated and gets viscerally emotional and blown out of prop portion. at the end of the day, if you are talking about bilateral, no. >> michael lindenberger from the "dallas morning news" thank you. we w

they all went to canada, but in two groups. karl armstrong was the first captured in canada, in toronto, in february of 1972. so he was on the run for about 18 months before he was captured. he was extradited. it took a year to extradite him because he thought it the whole way, before he came to trial in madison in the fall of 1973. a lot of people felt his action of trying to blow up the army mathematics research center was a good idea and justified and the loss of robert was terrible but the statement he was making was important, so karl armstrong freedom party, freedom committee also established themselves. there were a lot of protests around the madison state capital with people wearing this t-shirt and this one as well, who felt karl should not go to jail. so there is a lot of feeling about karl going free. this last piece is a banner that was used in parades. it says to jail the army mathematics research center. we know it was used by a member of the karl armstrong freedom committee. he remembers taking this around to sev

competition in canada. when the orioles are in toronto or when the flyers are there, we play the canadian anthem and the american anthem and then we get at it. i have to admit to you, i have to admit that sometimes when we compete at the olympic games and we do not come out on top and you are getting the gold medal presented to it the united states of america and we stand at attention when the flag is raised, we grind our teeth in respect when that happens. we have been friends. we have been allies ever since the war of 1812. we both claim we won the war of 1812. canada was a little under estimated. i think jefferson said we just march in. we like to be underestimated. but we like to be reliable allies with our nato partners and with our neighbors and partners of the united states of america. [ applause ] we have been together in world wars, in korea. we are transitioning out of afghanistan together. we were together in libya. we worked together in all the threats that we might have in our neighborhood and

. >>> well a keystone xl pipeline would cross there canada into montana and snakes through the greatins before connecting with existing pipelines going through the midwest and points south all the way to the gulf of mexico. supporter insist that the pipeline will create as many as 20,000 jobs, but a review by the state department found that construction would only create 3900 short-term jobs at most and crea create another 40,000 support jobs, but when it is done it will only need 50 people to operate it. for more, david has this report. >> reporter: for more than half a decade, plans for a new pipeline meant to carry canadian crude oil to gulf coast refineries have pitted energy producers against farmers and environmentalists. the controversy has been virtually unprecedented for a pipeline, which is known as the keystone xl, straining trade relations with canada, and often assuming center stage in presidential politics. >> i do want to be clear, allowing the keystone pipeline to be built requiring a finding that doing so would be in our nation's interest. >> reporter: canada is the

and canada around oil politics. have greg or robertson reelected is a vancouver mayor, how significant is this? you were arrested in front of the white house. along with 1200 other people like bill mckibben and others, protesting the keystone xl, what, three years ago? do you think progress has been made? saying, it hasen shifted dramatically in those three years. i think it has shifted. when i think about what we were doing three years ago outside the white house, our counter arguments were, well, doesn't really matter. as i said, we will get the oil out some other way. and now all of the other arteries that would carry that out of alberta are facing challenges. the reelection of robertson and the fact vancouver stood up to huge amount of money coming from the oil industry to try to beat whoor robertson and others are opposing vancouver being more of an oil export terminal than it already is, is an indication of future amount of to all ofposition these projects. it percent of people in her disclosure proposed incre

a pipeline that is going all the way across our country, north to south, so that some company in canada can make profits by selling oil to people outside of the united states. i have concerns. i would like to have an opportunity to debate and amend that. this bill and this process that has been set up by the republicans in the house will not permit that. i have real concerns about moving forward with the legislation as it is. >> given the results of tuesday's election, give us some idea of the color or tenor of the meetings about sending the same leadership team going back in the field for 2016. >> this is where it would be nice to hear from the newer members as well. i learned after 22 years that an election is an election. some of our colleagues have learned that you should not take anything for granted. an election for leadership in the democratic caucus, republican caucus, is no different. you still have to come out with the votes. i don't believe anybody in our democratic caucus will be elected to serve as a leader unless he or she deserves that opportunity to lead. we will have an

canada was a little under estimated. i think jefferson said we just march in. we like to be underestimated. but we like to be reliable allies with our nato partners and with our neighbors and partners of the united states of america. [ applause ] we have been together in world wars, in korea. we are transitioning out of afghanistan together. we were together in libya. we worked together in all the threats that we might have in our neighborhood and around the world. again, just last weekend in wales, under the chairmanship of prime minister cameron, canada, united states and the nato countries pledged to stand on guard for the people of the ukraine or for the ukraine and we pledge to stand together dealing against any terrorist threat against the united states, against canada and against any other nato country. that is our pledge today after 200 years of commemoration of this flag. and that is our pledge and our future to always be friends and allies together. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. now, please welcome maryland senior senator and the lon

it is my favorite place in canada. are tough, crazy bastards, and i admire them for it. toronto, vancouver, i love you, but not like montreal. why? i shall explain. all will be revealed. in the meantime, check this guy out. what's the post office's motto? neither rain nor sleet nor driving snow nor plague of locusts prevent the mail carrier from delivering my junk mail? here in montreal, the simple task of delivering the mail in winter comes with its own set of hurdles, icy hurdles. i've got to ask, do you have special equipment for this? >> we've got slip-on boots. we do have our boots in the rain -- sorry, when it gets icy, with spikes on them. >> uh huh? >> and they give is also slip-on spikes for when it's icy. ♪ >> any sort of city ordinance that you have to shovel or -- they're not penalized financially or ticketed? >> no, nothing like that. >> any injuries in the line of duty? >> i've had several tumbles, one incident i was off for two months. i thought i broke my ankle. >> what's the most perilous aspect of the

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. >> you miss canada? >> i don't miss canada. >> you come across the rio grande, too? >> you know, i would have take know a real trip out there. >> this provides me an opportunity to salute the canadians watching the show. we have a substantial audience all over canada. >> huge number. >> the president of canada watches. >> there is a problem here, we don't have a president. >> prime minister? >> we have a prime minister. >> he watches the show? >> i would hope so. >> he's a friend of yours? >> as it happens, he is a friend of mine. >> he not only damage tell me but hasn't given the hint he watches the show. >> i met the man. [ laughter ] >> how i can be -- . >> thanksgiving. >> you're witnessing a fit of self-control. >> thankful for that. thankful you met the prime minister of canada. >> there you go. >> if i can interrupt the canadian, make-believe tete-a- tete. i wanted to add we would have been grateful that we're still here debating issues after, what, some 30 years, john? >> 37. >> 32 years. >> and haven't had a lot of them. >> 32. >> and i'm older than all of y

[laughter] you know, what's really important to understand in canada, you know, which is a member ofand we're one of the the biggest providers of energy to military superpowers. united states, soon china through the bilateral free trade agreement that harper just signed and ratified a week before his trip to china as well as the comprehensive economic trade agreement with the european union which has also been signed but not ratified yet, you know, there is a agenda afoot that's being led by our extremist government to really, you know, lock canada in to becoming this, somewhat of this resource colony to military superpowers across the planet. and, you know, that's not to say that canada isn't an imperialist power in its own right, because they also have bilateral free trade agreements with a lot of countries in the global south like peru and others where canada is acting as the raider of the treasure chest, so to speak. and stuck in the midst of all of this geopolitical bs is, of course, indigenous peoples and our sovereignty movement and our fight to protect the sacredness of mothe

yes, canada's our friend. we play hockey with them, basketball, whatever. but this oil's going to go to our own friend, china. this is about canada shipping oil through america, endangering american lands to supply the chinese with oil. the keystone x.l. proponents like to talk about these jobs which it will create but the vast majority is temporary. the permanent jobs measure 35. the permanent jobs will really be cleanup. may i have an extra 30 seconds? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. polis: i yield an additional 45 seconds to the gentleman. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from tennessee is are ecked for 45 -- is recognized for 45 seconds. mr. cohen: as mentioned by mr. polis, these jobs are important if they're in transportation infrastructure. that creates real jobs in this country, getting goods to market. and my friends on the other side have resisted transportation infrastructure jobs. clean energy is permanent jobs. wind and solar is permanent jobs. the only permanent jobs are the cleanups. when the u.s. and chin

trans canada ceo was just on. they are building pipelines thinking that it would minimize the environment to impact. we should be able to build the pipeline because it's environmentally friendly. we are using oil anyway. neil: i think it will eventually happen. but what it is is perhaps we are a year or more poorly start. >> production is at an all-time high, americans are united in the fact that they want energy independence and control and choice and that last another year, so be it. but the challenge is the message sent to the american consumer of what may be best for me versus what washington thinks is best for me. it can cause the economy to dry up. we want people feeling that washington has their back and help them find ways to save money, which is ultimately good for the economy now and in the long run. neil: overtook ferguson, missouri, where a grand jury decision could come down. that is why some businesses are barring their doors this hour. the latest from the ground is the latest from the ground is co (

the house approved the construction of the pipeline from canada to mexico. >> it's up in the air. senator mary landrieu said that she can round up enough of her democratic colleagues to see passage of the bill tuesday of next week, but there is a question if the head count is really there. now democratic leadership is allowing this vote to go forward to help lan drew out because she is logged in a tough fight down in louisiana, a run off to keep her senate seat. both candidates hope to show vote necessary louisiana that they help to make keystone happen. landrieu hopes to say that she stood up to president obama and tried to make it a reality. >> what is the latest from him s. >> s' not keen on signing a keystone pipeline bill. in myanmar he took a moment to talk about keystone and pushed back that passing it would lower american's prices at the gas pump. >> i have to constantly push back against this idea that some how the keystone pipeline is either this massive jobs bill for the united states or is some how lowering gas prices. understand what this project is. it is providing t

let's actually work with canada, who's a friend, mr. speaker, and bring almost a million barrels a day of oil from canada that will no longer need to get from countries who -- that we'll no longer need to get from countries who don't like us. this isn't about a million new barrels coming into america. it's deciding who we're going to do business with. when we trade with canada, we get 80 cents on the dollar back. when we send billions of dollars to middle eastern countries, sometimes that money's used against us, against our troops. and we get less than 50 cents on the dollar back. everything about this says do it, says yes, stop saying no to american jobs, stop saying no to american energy security. this is an issue that brings people together and there was a message that the american people sent last week. they don't want a go-alone president. they want a washington that can work for them. this is a classic example of how republicans and democrats can come together and say yes to a project that creates good jobs for our country and cr

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rinaldi, have you been to canada? >> i have. canada is about 1/10 our size they are already placing , but they are already placing themselves. they have satellite capacity. we should be ahead of the game on this. maybe it will take a disaster to wake people up. we cannot backslide on next gen. that is one point. in the meantime -- did you want to comment? >> yes, sir. congressman, i represent the pilots of canada. although net canada is a system we should be looking at, at, i i have also had to represent pilots that have had major aircraft accidents. we have to be mindful that some airports in the northern part under that system do not have the most advanced systems. >> but they are adopting faster than we are and will student soon have that if they have that capability from a satellite rather than a radar -based system. that is my point. we have to stay ahead. you do not want anything that is outmoded as technology. what you want is the technology that gives us the best coverage. we will probably always have to have a backup sy

we cannot stop canada from producing it. they are going to produce it, and it is going to be moved east and west by mail or by truck or moved south by truck. we cannot put any more trucks on hour highways or crowd our rail. i see senator markey who is going to speak against the pipeline and why from his perspective it is not the right thing to do. i respect those views. i strongly disagree with him but i respect him. i strongly disagree with his arguments and we will have those debates in the coming days. but the point is this, whether you support the senator from massachusetts or you support the senator from louisiana's views, the point is we need to vote. that is the process. i believe we have the 60 votes on this floor to pass this bill. i believe we've always had the votes to pass this bill. if we can just get it to a vote. now the president will then, as is the process, the senate has to pass a bill, it has to go to the house, and then it has to go to the president. he can sign it or he can veto it. i do not have at thi

canada and u.s. scoffed comparing it to a 15th century land grab. the move under scores the growing importance of the region. to get a firsthand look i headed north. way north, to the northern most town in the world on an island in the high arctic. many nations are eyeing this once sleepy coal mining settlement as a strategic base in this arctic frontier, we are much closer to the north pole than oslo and this is for polar bears, here they generate electricity by burning coal and they were longing for a place to put the co2 emission that his come from burning coal, trying to find a reservoir to put it underground and came upon natural gas. find like these have wet the appetites of energy prospect terse but it's not the only battle in the north. it's about who controls the high seas. which are increasingly accessible because of global warming. new shipping lanes created by the melting of ice in the arctic could save a lot of money, for example, a cargo ship traveling between western europe and asia typically sails through the sue he is canal, doing i

new jersey governor chris christie is planning a trip to canada. just a trade mission. ♪ with the card most accepted in the philadelphia region, you have the compassion and security of blue cross. giving you the confidence to move forward. independence blue cross. live fearless. >>> this is nbc 10 news. >>> the workweek is off to a soggy start today. this is how it looked on walnut street in wilmington earlier. in chester county, heavy rain made for tricky driving. this is along route 30 in devin. looking out now on to the schuylkill expressway, our live skycam network showing the rain is making an exit. but now bitter cold is about to move in. >> nbc 10 chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz is back with more on that now. green? >> most of the day has been chilly and very, very wet. and it's about to change in an extreme way. it's in the 40s across most of the airy, near 60 farther to the south. that's going to change, too. as we go through the night tonight, the temperature is going to plunge down to 28 degrees in philadelphia by 7:00 a.m

athabaska river in canada.ups preying on the public's interest, we can't equate challenge with catastrophe and that's the whole essence of this attack. >> anthony you want to get in here? >> yes, certainly. one of the -- it's interesting that we mention the athabaska river. cancer rates fair higher than you would expect in any other community, tens of times higher. so we're beginning to nail down some really significant impacts associated with tar sands production in alberta. there's no question that oil spills have significant impacts to human health and to the environment. we found that with the kalamazoo tar sand spill in 2010. that spill showed that tar sands have some of the most damaging qualities, when they hit water bodies. in 2010, about 830,000 gallons of crude was spilled in michigan. over four years later, that oil spill has still contaminated 38 miles of that river and over $1 billion have been spent in attempting to remediate that spill. so once a tar sand spill happens in a water body it's very d

. >> he was saying, well, this is a canada -- it will only benefit canada, not the united states. when you hear those kinds of sentiments, that doesn't bode well for anyone who wants to start a small business or even big corporate business. charles: we hear that gridlock was good. when we had the same scenario with bill clinton and the gingrich revolution there was a lot of comprise. bill clinton moved to the center. >> after the republicans kept beating him to a pulp. you have to remember the on welfare reform, he vetoed that twice. and whether he got what he wanted or the republicans finally just broke through, but finally it took three times. so this may be another -- another welfare reform issue. >> someone on his own staff said you're going to lose every race if you don't start working with them. i don't know that we got with valerie. -- charles: we have sound of senator landrieu. she's been extraordinarily passionate about this as you might imagine. let's take a listen. >> this is america's hour to become energy independent. we don't have to count out to russia. we don't hav

we get 36% of the oil from canada, the oil we import. but the balkan formation near north dakota is at a massive bottleneck. this is a shovel job, i know the president may not recognize any of those because he spent $800 billion trying to find them, but this is a shovel-ready job that alleviates the bottleneck in north dakota because farmers are complaining in north dakota they can't get their crops out and can't get the fertilizer in because every train available is being used to get oil out of there and as gary b. already mentioned, that's a far more dangerous way to ship this oil than it is by pipeline. >> jonas, where do you weigh in on this? >> first of all, it's taken so long that if we wait any longer there won't be any oil in the barrel. $40 oil, they are not going to be pumping oil out of canada because it is too expensive, the production costs. so we already missed an opportunity. it should have happened near very 130 already 140 a barrel. i never understood the environmental angle. to gary's point, the other way to get the oil