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Originally Posted by Slava
No. They bought the project from Kinder Morgan, and it was still alive. However, there were going to be a lot of challenges and risks to the project. The private industry wasn't willing to take that kind of risk. If Kinder Morgan just abandoned it, the expansion wouldn't have been built. So, the government bought it and completed it. You can criticize that for many things, but supporting the industry isn't one of them.
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And it turned out KM were right, there were some very expensive challenges that came up, like the Barnaby section. But Trudeau deemed it important enough to continue funding, with taxpayer dollars from ALL Canadians, to get Alberta's product to an international market. He also stood by while the courts decided on territorial and environmental issues. He didn't fold up the project at the first signs of adversity. And yet, the snowflakes claim persecution, and that all the rest of Canada does is take. It's pathetic.