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Rob Breakenridge: OK, Carney, now approve the pipeline for real

The route chosen is the lowest hanging fruit with the least amount of opposition

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CALGARY — It’s quite a needle that the prime minister has threaded, weaving together announcements with B.C., Alberta, and private industry to move forward with a new million-barrel-a-day pipeline to Canada’s West Coast.

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It’s taken a long time to get to this point, though, and we’re still really only nearing the end of the beginning. It’s unfortunate that it took months of negotiations, major concessions, and an unprecedented legislative intervention to expedite Canada’s regulatory approval process just to arrive at what is essentially the lowest-hanging fruit.

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It would be a terrible indictment of Canada’s ability to build major projects if all of this was somehow insufficient to move this project forward. By landing on the easiest, simplest pipeline route with the least possible amount of opposition, there should be zero excuses now

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