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We figured the question was relevant. After all, Bombardier builds private jets that burn jet fuel and Ford builds vehicles that burn gasoline. If the Trudeau government is concerned about emissions from the Energy East pipeline project, shouldn’t we expect Ottawa to apply the same standard to companies that build vehicles that burn oil and gas products?

Surprisingly, the Trudeau government told us there was no emissions review for Ford and the materials related to Bombardier were confidential.

As we suspected, there likely wasn’t any kind of emissions review for Bombardier. We reworded our information request slightly and sent in another search request for documents.

This time, a staff person in Ottawa responded: “I regret to inform you that a search found no records relevant to the subject of your request.”

In other words, there was no upstream and downstream emissions review for Bombardier. Strange isn’t it?

The Trudeau government seems to have deep concerns about emissions from Alberta’s energy sector – even suggesting Canada needs to “phase out” our oilsands – but yet the federal government seems to have no problem with flowing hundreds of millions of tax dollars to companies that build vehicles that burn oil and gas products.

One has to wonder what Alberta federal cabinet ministers Kent Hehr and Amarjeet Sohi and other Liberals from our province think about the situation. Do they think it’s fair that Ottawa is putting regulatory roadblocks in front of our energy sector, while rolling out the red carpet – along with hundreds of millions of tax dollars – for Bombardier and Ford?