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Opinion: Canada has its own Strait of Hormuz

Anti-oil activists have periodically tried to block access to B.C ports and pipelines. Governments need to be ready for a new blockade

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For decades, the Strait of Hormuz has been a strategic choke point through which a significant share of the world’s energy passes. Countries that depend on that energy are hostage to whoever controls the strait.

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Canada has suffered its own version of a strategic choke point. Not from hostile naval forces, but through a sustained campaign of activism — supported in........

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