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WASHINGTON — It will be a lively President’s Day long weekend for the folks here at the Canadian embassy.

As many as 20,000 environmental activists are expected to march on the White House on Sunday to demand the death of Keystone XL, and embassy staff plan to be on the sidelines to hear what’s said up the street on Pennsylvania Avenue and do their own count of the protesters.

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[np_storybar title=”U.S. support for Keystone pipeline stretches well beyond industry insiders” link=”http://business.financialpost.com/2013/02/13/u-s-support-for-keystone-pipeline-stretches-well-beyond-industry-insiders/?__lsa=205c-8bdf”]The U.S. environmental movement’s nasty campaign against the pipeline, the oil sands and Canada’s fossil-fuel dependent economy have left many Canadians wondering about the future of their relationship with the United States.

What’s received less attention is that there is a broad and diverse swath of Americans — from organized labour to the U.S. oil industry, from Democrats to Republicans, from big manufacturers to small businessmen — who support the project, want the energy security that it assures and want a stronger energy partnership with Canada.