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Kenney’s interview was notable given the sharpness of his comments about a proposed oilsands development and the recent Supreme Court unanimous decision to dismiss B.C.’s case to restrict heavy oil shipments across its borders.

Kenney said it was “unprecedented” that the Supreme Court would rule, after just 30 minutes to confer, on such an important case.

“They came right back, slam dunk, saying that no province has the right to block a pipeline because those are, under the constitution, inter-provincial pipelines are the exclusive power of the federal government,” Kenney said.

“So this should send a message to our friends in Quebec as well, who have been claiming that they could stop a possible Energy East pipeline that would take Canadian oil to the Saint John refinery and displace Saudi oil imports in eastern Canada,” Kenney said.

A spokesperson for the premier said Kenney’s comments about Energy East were aspirational and the office isn’t aware of any plans to revive the Energy East pipeline project, but is hopeful that it will be revived in the future.

TC Energy Corp., the Calgary-headquartered pipeline company that submitted an application to the build the Energy East pipeline in 2014, did not respond to a request for comment on whether the Energy East pipeline project would be revived.

So this should send a message to our friends in Quebec as well, who have been claiming that they could stop a possible Energy East pipeline Alberta Premier Jason Kenney

The company withdrew its application to build the project in 2017 after Ottawa made changes to pipeline reviews so that both upstream and downstream emissions from the project would be considered in a regulatory review of the $15-billion, 1.1-million-barrels-per-day pipeline.