Weyburn 鈥� When crude-by-rail peaked in Saskatchewan, Stewart Southern Railway, the shortline from Stoughton to just outside of Regina played a big part. Now Blair Stewart, who founded Stewart Southern Rail, is deeply concerned about energy issues, including, ironically, pipelines.
Stewart is one of the organizers behind the Regina Rally Against the Carbon Tax on April 4. He hails from Filmore.
鈥淚鈥檝e been involved in ag all my life. I had an export company I started in 1986. And then, I was the founder of Stewart Southern Railway in 2010. In 2010, we started to move oil. Everything on our poster, I support. I鈥檝e always been part of it all my life,鈥� Stewart said in Weyburn on March 21.
Asked what his issues are, he said, 鈥淪top the carbon tax, kill Bill C-48 and Bill C-69. And the last one is build the pipelines. If you kill those two bills, then we鈥檒l be fine.鈥�
Stewart is one of the organizers. 鈥淚 will have a truck in it,鈥� he said.
鈥淚 think all four of those issues blend together. That鈥檚 the reason Western Canada has come to a standstill.鈥�
He went on, 鈥淐-48, to me, as a Canadian, I can鈥檛 believe we live in Canada and some government can implement a bill that says we cannot ship western oil. It鈥檚 banned from northern B.C. Why can鈥檛 we put a pipeline through and put it on a ship, when Eastern Canada is totally allowed to do it. Call it a double standard, call it what you want. We鈥檙e importing from Saudi Arabia and Iran.鈥�
