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Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s commitment to invest in the largest private-sector project in Canada’s history and a new trade deal with the U.S. and Mexico show the country is open for business again.

But neither are likely to help Trans Mountain, the troubled oil pipeline project that has epitomized the country’s inability to get big projects done and for which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needs to find a buyer if it’s ever to get it built.

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“The comparisons between Trans Mountain and LNG Canada are apples and oranges,” British Columbia premier John Horgan said in an interview after the gas project’s signing ceremony with Trudeau in Vancouver Tuesday.

Kinder Morgan Inc. sold the oil pipeline to the government for $4.5 billion after the U.S. energy giant said it faced “unquantifiable” political and regulatory risk. Trudeau’s plans to quickly find a buyer who would build the expansion project were derailed by a federal court ruling that quashed its permits. The bungle prompted cries that Canada had become uninvestable and resource projects undoable — quelled by the massive LNG commitment announced this week.