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Thanks my friend, we’re working hard to keep our progress going. https://t.co/l4V42PZbef — Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) October 16, 2019

Within hours, the Liberals were using Obama’s tweet for fundraising.

Let’s forget about the propriety of a former U.S. president trying to influence the outcome of a tight Canadian election at the eleventh hour.

Let’s ignore America’s first black president saying nothing about Trudeau’s blackface scandal.

The reality is Obama’s and Trudeau’s much-publicized “bromance” didn’t do us any good because Obama was Canada’s enemy on energy policy.

Obama’s seven years of dithering on whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline to transport Alberta bitumen to refineries on the US Gulf Coast, before vetoing it in 2015, damaged the Canadian economy because it contributed to our lack of pipeline capacity, which means our oil has to be sold at huge discounts.

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Obama vetoed Keystone XL even though it was supported by Trudeau and former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper, and was essentially green-lighted by Obama’s state department in 2014.

The former U.S. president’s hypocrisy was breathtaking.

While Obama refused to approve Keystone as a sop to Canadian and US anti-pipeline protesters and so he could boast about that refusal during the 2015 Paris climate accord negotiations, he was simultaneously boasting to Americans that he had turned the US into an energy superpower.

Here’s what Obama said in a speech to US pipeline workers in Cushing, Oklahoma on March 22, 2012:

“Now, under my administration, America is producing more oil today than at any time in the last eight years … Over the last three years, I’ve directed my administration to open up millions of acres for gas and oil exploration across 23 different states.