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They were protesting, among other things, the Coastal GasLink pipeline in northern B.C.

Teck’s reasons for bailing, delivered by CEO and President Don Lindsay to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, were crystal clear.

As he put it:

“Global markets are changing rapidly and investors and customers are increasingly looking for jurisdictions to have a framework in place that reconciles resource development and climate change …

“This does not yet exist here today and, unfortunately, the growing debate about this issue has placed Frontier and our company squarely at the nexus of much broader issues that need to be resolved. In that context, it is now evident that there is no constructive path forward for the project.”

That’s a polite way of saying that Trudeau and Co. have no understanding of what it takes to power a modern, industrialized economy, combined with pie-in-the-sky climate policies that are making life more expensive for Canadians, while failing to meet any of their commitments under the Paris climate accord.

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In Canada, it doesn’t matter how many regulatory hoops an energy company is willing to jump through, or for how long, or how many deals for compensation it signs with Indigenous bands.

Any project can be delayed, cancelled or rendered economically unviable by a court, or regulatory decision that bears no resemblance to reality, or by a handful of radical demonstrators terrifying Trudeau, his cabinet and the Liberal caucus.