Enormous Benefit: Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Harper made the pipeline pitch while taking questions at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, according to CBC. "This is an enormous benefit to the U.S. in terms of long-term energy security," Harper added and Prime Minister Stephen Harper told an American audience today that the Keystone XL pipeline "absolutely needs to go ahead." He laid out the case for why U.S. President Barack Obama's administration should approve the proposed pipeline that would connect Alberta's oilsands to the Gulf Coast, touting job creation prospects. Harper said the project will create 40,000 jobs south of the Canadian border and that can't be ignored. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.