Commentary Why is the Line 5 pipeline so important? Why are we invoking treaties and clauses in treaties, and pleading with Michigan to recognize treaties in order to keep this line open and the oil flowing? Our very woke government’s inclination has been, since its inception a very few years ago, to walk in lockstep with all the proper opinion-makers of Europe, who walk in lockstep with the woke left of Berlin, Glasgow, Berkley, and Cambridge, and who demand we make oil production, and pipelines, completely obsolete within 20 years. Is it 20? It may be less, may be more, but obsolete nonetheless. In fact, in the last five years, wanting to keep pipelines operational has become tantamount to being racist, discriminatory, or bigoted. And we do have enough whites who fly in private jets to tell us so. When my son was working in Fort McMurray in minus 30-degree …