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Only ten days ago, the Federal Court of Appeal struck down Prime Minister Trudeau’s approval of the Trans Mountain project.

The court found two failings in Trudeau’s approval. He failed to properly consult affected First Nations. He failed to consider increased tanker traffic on Canada’s Pacific Ocean environment.

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The court left a fairly specific road map toward approval.

But some politicians don’t want to read the map. They prefer to blame the map-maker. Never follow such a politician.

Last week, Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh took a hard shot at both Conservatives and Liberals for again trying to short-cut the pipeline review process. And he specifically went after Alberta Conservative Leader Jason Kenney.

“We’re at this position today because of the Liberal government – and because of Jason Kenney, and because of Harper,” Singh said.

He is 100 per cent correct.

When Kenney was at the Cabinet table in 2012, the Harper government designed the National Energy Board consultation process. It was used for the Northern Gateway review, which was quashed in court for failing to properly consult affected First Nations.

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Trudeau kept Kenney’s court-proven process failure – even though candidate Justin Trudeau promised he’d restart the Trans Mountain review under new rules. The Trans Mountain review continued under the Conservative rules, with some tweaks at the end – and was also quashed, again for failing to consult.

But rather than read the map, Jason Kenney prefers to blame the map-makers.

While appearing on CTV last week, Kenney listed what he thinks needs to be done to move the pipeline ahead. Fixing consultations with affected First Nations wasn’t mentioned.

But Kenney did tweet a series of cheap shots at Singh, among which was the falsehood that Singh’s NDP adopted the so-called Leap Manifesto.