JACQUES POITRAS is a journalist and author of Pipe Dreams: The Fight for Canada's Energy Future, published by Penguin Random House Canada and shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the John W. Dafoe Book Prize. His last book, Irving vs. Irving: Canada's Feuding Billionaires and the Stories They Won't Tell, was a national best-seller and was shortlisted for the National Business Book Award. He is also the author of The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma, Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy, and Imaginary Line: Life on an Unfinished Border, also shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize. Poitras lives in Fredericton and has been the provincial affairs reporter for CBC News in New Brunswick since 2000.