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The message couldn’t be clearer than in the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association’s recent response to Bill C-69, the Impact Assessment Act, introduced by the federal government in February and now making its way through Parliament.

The group warns that instead of restoring trust in Canadian energy regulation, the bill, one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s priorities, ensures no other major pipeline project will ever be built in Canada.

That’s a bold statement from a lobby group, but no hyperbole. The Alberta-based oil and gas sector is that disillusioned with Ottawa’s relentless energy industry re-engineering.

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The organization — which represents historic Canadian companies like TransCanada Corp., Enbridge Inc. and Pembina Pipeline Corp., whose shares are held by many Canadians in their RRSPs — doesn’t mince words in its submission to a parliamentary committee:

“Currently there is profound uncertainty in advancing new major pipeline projects. We now have a significant problem as a sector and as a country in accessing new markets for our products around the world. The development of new projects is grinding to a halt. CEPA member companies that have material assets in other countries are actively pursuing those opportunities because of the uncertainty and potential implications of further potentially seismic regulatory changes that will directly impact the pipeline sector. Our sector is suffocating because of it.”