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Can anyone imagine Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declaring Ontario’s manufacturing sector to be in crisis, then doing nothing about it?

Better yet, imagine Quebec’s Bombardier is in financial peril — again — and a Liberal government in Ottawa simply looks skyward while twiddling its thumbs and whistling a dainty tune.

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You can’t imagine that ever happening, because where would Bombardier executives’ rich bonuses come from if not from the taxpayers of Canada?

Yet, on Wednesday, when federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau brought down his fall fiscal update, it contained not a word about the oil and gas sector — about the deep discount on oil prices caused by the lack of pipelines.

The day after Morneau’s crickets-for-oil address, The PM himself was in Calgary on yet another of his endless charm offensives. (Charm offensives and apology speeches, that’s all the man ever seems to do. Oh, sorry, and dress-up tours of India.)