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The early reviews are in: People in Calgary despise the idea of the National Energy Board being shuffled out of Calgary.

That’s not exactly blockbuster news. Ultimately, however, the views of the mayor, premier or local chamber of commerce president won’t turn the tide on this issue.

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What really matters in the coming months is what the federal Liberal government thinks of its new expert panel report that recommends uprooting parts of the national energy regulator from the city as part of a broader plan to reform the agency.

Now, the only Calgarian in the federal cabinet has weighed in, in what looks like a signal on where the Trudeau government will go next.

“I’ve been around this business getting to be a long time. Reports get written … recommendations get made, things are looked at and sometimes they are absolutely ignored,” Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr said in an interview Friday.