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Former Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall has compared the government’s environmental assessment bill to kindling, fuelling the flames of Western alienation, and its oil tanker ban to lighter fluid.

If he’s right, the Prairie sun is about to be obscured by more smoke — this time emanating from Parliament Hill.

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The Trudeau government is planning an incendiary end to the parliamentary session by passing the environmental impact bill, C-69, and the tanker ban off the B.C. coast, C-48, — to the chagrin of the governments of Alberta and Saskatchewan — before attempting to quell Western anger by announcing its support for the Trans-Mountain pipeline on June 18.

“The government calculus is bad news, bad news, good news and then get out of town,” said one senior Conservative.

One man’s disappointment is, of course, another’s delight.

The Trudeau government and its progressive supporters will cheer the passage of the massive environmental impact legislation, dubbed by its critics “the No-More Pipelines bill.”