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Many Canadians are expressing surprise that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears to have little regard for the rule of law in the wake of Jody Wilson-Raybould’s explosive and credible testimony Wednesday before the Commons justice committee.

Clearly, they have not been paying attention.

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Trudeau has indicated his contempt for the rule of law on numerous occasions, and that started long before he was elected prime minister in October 2015.

On June 17, 2014, Trudeau, then the leader of the third-place federal Liberal Party, vowed to kill the Northern Gateway pipeline if he became prime minister, even though the project had already been approved by the National Energy Board’s joint review panel in December 2013 and had just been passed in the House of Commons.

Not only had Calgary-based Enbridge jumped through literally hundreds of planning and regulatory hoops starting in 2002 — including meeting all 209 extra conditions placed upon it by the NEB — and spent more than $500 million with the project’s other proponents — Trudeau had no regard for a semi-judicial and extremely rigorous process that set Canada apart as a country that did not resort to arbitrary measures and political whim when it came to determining the viability of large infrastructure projects.