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Energy East now joins a heap of failed Canadian energy projects. The Northern Gateway pipeline, proposed by Enbridge Inc., was put out of its misery by Trudeau barely a year ago. The $36 billion liquefied natural gas project led by Malaysia’s Petronas perished this summer after years of being pushed around by regulators.

Let’s not forget the mass exodus of international oilsands companies that found opportunities elsewhere, or the exodus of capital from Canada’s own energy champions, including TransCanada and Enbridge, in favour of expansions in the United States. We can thank Trudeau’s carbon taxes and a red tape onslaught at a time of uncertain oil prices for that, too.

The Liberals are now counting on other pipeline projects that they approved, the Trans Mountain expansion, proposed by Kinder Morgan, and the Line 3 expansion, proposed by Enbridge, to move forward. Then there is the Keystone XL pipeline, which was revived by President Donald Trump.

Yet the two most significant ones, the Trans Mountain expansion and Keystone XL, are far from a sure thing. If either one doesn’t make it to the finish line, given one is stuck in the courts in B.C. and the other before regulatory authorities in Nebraska, there is no Liberal Plan B for pipelines. No new major oil pipelines are in the works.

The Liberals are banking on new investment and expertise to build alternative energy in which Canada has no strategic advantage.

The funny thing about a government that kills private sector investment and jobs to fit its re-election strategy is that it breeds mistrust among investors of all stripes.