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Varcoe: 'The damage is done': Flow of Canadian oil to U.S. continues, even as relationship fractures

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Enbridge announced plans to expand its main pipeline network to transport more Canadian oil into the U.S. Energy giant Enbridge plans to invest up to $2 billion of capital investment over the next three years .

More than four million barrels per day of Canadian oil flows into the United States , representing this country’s single-biggest export item.

Investors on both sides of the border reacted swiftly to the tariff war.

The S&P / TSX composite index fell 429.57 points, or 1.7 per cent , in Canada .

In the U.S. , the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 1.55 per cent .

“At some point, this doesn’t have a lot of logic to it. If you’re in the United States , you are going to need our products”.

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