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Not everyone feels this way, obviously. There’s plenty of support for both Alberta and the pipeline in other provinces, including B.C.

But this anti-Alberta feeling takes me back to 1980, when the province was widely vilified for failing to applaud Liberal attempts to control oil prices and lure the industry out of Alberta.

Much of today’s animosity is based on fallacy and short memories.

First, Ottawa “did not buy AB a pipeline,” as that fellow said, with plenty of company from others.

The Trudeau government bought the pipeline a year ago, for $4.5 billion, because the B.C. New Democrats had so harassed, pestered and blocked the project that Kinder Morgan was prepared to abandon it.

Premier John Horgan and his crew filed lawsuits, threatened regulations and invented provincial powers unknown to the Constitution, such as the imaginary right to control oil flows coming through an interprovincial pipeline.

Trudeau once warned Horgan that his actions threatened to blow up the national climate strategy, which counted on an oilsands emissions cap and carbon taxes in return for the pipeline.

B.C. Premier John Horgan and Environment Minister George Heyman respond to the federal approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in Vancouver on June 18, 2019.Apart from that, Trudeau never really took on Horgan. He did not use the one weapon that might have worked — a sharp withdrawal of federal funding from B.C.

Former Alberta premier Rachel Notley got involved, not because she wanted a fight with a fellow New Democrat, but because she thought the Liberals were cowering under the Peace Tower.

Finally, Kinder Morgan got fed up. The owners threatened to drop the whole thing. It was, of course, a successful pitch to sell to the single panicked buyer, the federal government.

But this was not buying a pipeline for Alberta. It was buying a pipeline because of Horgan. Finally, Ottawa had to ensure that federal authority could still get a national project built in this country.

After the purchase, the Federal Court of Appeal famously stalled the whole project for nine months.

This was due solely to federal failures to consult properly and consider matters of marine safety. B.C. hostility was suddenly compounded by federal laxity.

So it’s true, few Albertans grovelled in admiration after Tuesday’s decision. Experience has shown that approvals are often just another step on the road to more trouble.