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Lorne Gunter: West Coast pipeline ‘progress’ still more performance than reality

It looks like a game of three-card monte to me, the classic confidence game where observers are tricked into predicting which card is the “money card,” only to discover the dealer has already palmed the winning card back into the deck.

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On Thursday, Alberta’s provincial government is expected to submit to Ottawa an application for preliminary approval of a new pipeline to the West Coast. The federal government will then have until early September to make tentative approval and add the pipeline to the list of “projects of national interest.” That is supposed to speed formal approval.

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