# People and organizations named — Heather Exner-Pirot / energy-food source-check

## People in the video or immediate source trail
- **Dr. Heather Exner-Pirot** — guest; Senior Fellow and Director of Natural Resources, Energy, and Environment at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Auto-caption variants included “Heather Xner Perau.”
- **Jim Csek** — co-host of The Really Big Show. Auto-captions rendered his surname as “Czech.”
- **Iain Burns** — co-host of The Really Big Show. Auto-captions rendered first name as “Ian.”
- **Mark Maki** — Trans Mountain CEO; referenced in the discussion around Asian demand and heavy oil. Auto-captions rendered surname as “Mackey.”
- **Tim Hodgson** — Canada’s energy minister in the source trail/discussion; captions sometimes rendered “Hodson/Hodgen.”
- **Mark Carney** — Prime Minister referenced around Canada’s “trust,” energy-superpower and diversification language.
- **Danielle Smith** — Alberta Premier referenced in the Alberta/Ottawa pipeline and carbon-capture debate.
- **Doug Ford** — Ontario Premier referenced in discussion of “turn it off” / oil-retaliation rhetoric.
- **Donald Trump** — U.S. President referenced in tariff/geopolitics, Keystone XL / South Bow-Bridger context and oil-market pressure.
- **Sanae Takaichi** — Japanese prime minister named in The Logic source trail about a Japan-bound Canadian crude shipment.
- **Brian Jean** — Alberta Energy Minister named in The Logic source trail about talks with Japan on refinery upgrades.
- **David Eby** — B.C. Premier named in Exner-Pirot’s West Coast pipeline commentary as opposing a proposed northwest pipeline.
- **Nick** — show producer/operator addressed on air to bring up a chart; no public surname confirmed in the video transcript.

## Organizations and companies
- **The Really Big Show** — YouTube source/channel.
- **Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI)** — Exner-Pirot’s policy institute.
- **Trans Mountain / TMX / Westridge Marine Terminal** — current oil export route to the Pacific.
- **Government of Canada / Ottawa** and **Government of Alberta** — pipeline, emissions-cap, carbon-price and project-approval actors.
- **Alberta / Saskatchewan / Quebec / Nova Scotia / Ontario** — jurisdictions discussed in energy-resource context.
- **United States / Pentagon / State Department** — U.S. market/security-policy context.
- **China, Japan, South Korea/Korea, India, Thailand, Singapore** — Asian market/demand context in the video/source trail.
- **Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, Gulf of Mexico** — geopolitical/resource competitors or risk examples.
- **BP, Cenovus, CNRL, Whitecap** — energy companies or sector examples mentioned or caption-rendered in the investment discussion.
- **The Logic, BNN Bloomberg, The Hub, National Post, Bloomberg, Financial Times, S&P Global, CSIS, Hudson Institute** — information/source outlets or think tanks discussed or used as source trail.
- **Dalhousie University Agri-Food Analytics Lab / Canada’s Food Price Report** — food-price forecast source.
- **University of Guelph / Arrell Food Institute** — food-system expertise source; Dr. Evan Fraser quoted in related reporting.