This is John Batchelor. In conversation with Conrad Black, Reading and his call for the National Post,

we discussed Mark Carney, the new prime minister, in praise of Mark Carney, because of the decision

he has already announced that he's going to devote a large part of his budget, certainly larger

than the previous government's devoted, to defending the northwest, the Northwest

passage opening, building icebreakers, putting troops in to train for dealing with the threat

to the northwest, as the resources there, the mines, the oil, we can presume just riches endlessly, need to be

defended from the threat of the future. In praise of Mark Carney, and then there is the other

matter of the pipelines. Here I exchanged with Conrad Black, the question, where are they? You

talked to them. where are they?

Conrad explains more tonight.

He campaigned a non-direction.

He might change in another direction.

What about the pipelines?

We're waiting to see.

That is a litmus test.

He sent it to his so-called major project office and asked for it to be expedited.

But it isn't clear if that's really going to happen.

I think if it doesn't, as we've discussed in previous talks we've had on the radio, the consequences for the unity

of the country will be terrible and he knows that and he knows what the polls show.

So I am actually fairly confident he will do something, but the good many people after the unhappy

experiences with the previous government onto the same party.

We want to actually see a pipeline start before they have a comfort level that it's happening.

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