The position of Premier Clark & of Dr. Weaver that BC's Government has jurisdiction to interfere with the shipment of a product extracted elsewhere in Canada through the Province as duly approved under Federal jurisdiction is wrong and dangerous.

Interprovincial trade and commerce is under Federal jurisdiction constitutionally. It is right and proper for a Provincial Government to argue vigorously on the merits against the Federal Government giving approval for such shipment through the Province but not thereafter for the Province to try implicitly to interpose its own jurisdiction to nullify a due exercise of Federal jurisdiction in the matter.

The fact that the Federal Government might error as a matter of public policy by giving approval where many knowledgeable experts conclude that shipment and export of diluted bitumen pose serious and unwarranted environmental risks is not relevant to this jurisdictional issue under the constitution.