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Well, Sherlock Holmes, looks like that’s one mystery solved if you believe Premier Kenney.

The day after the nasty night before, the premier tells us what he says actually happened beforeTeck hit the eject button Sunday on its super-size $20-billion Frontier oilsands mine.

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According to the premier, the Trudeau government told Teck they’d wouldn’t get a yes or no on the project this week. The federal Liberals would kick the can down the road.

“I believe if it had not been for that uncertainty they would have proceeded with the project,” says Kenney.

You do have to wonder. Why would a company who jumped through hoops for nine years pull out on the eve of getting a possible approval?

Unless there wasn’t a possible approval, at least not now.

The smart money never bet on a yes after all the signals from the less-than-enthusiastic Trudeau team who’ve had since last July to give a green light to the job-creating oilsands mine.

Kenney also says he was told by Teck “the general atmosphere of lawlessness” in the past three weeks sure didn’t help.

That issue didn’t make it into Teck’s Dear Justin letter and the premier cannot explain why.