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Federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer told an Edmonton business luncheon Monday that the Liberals are out to end the energy industry.

The opposition leader said he has no faith that the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will be built, because Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has politicized the decision-making process.

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Scheer pointed to the Northern Gateway — a project approved by the National Energy Board, but later nixed by Trudeau.

“(It) was opening up a whole new market for Western Canadian energy, and that was killed not because of science, not because of objective data, but because of politics,” Scheer said.

As we enter the dog days of summer, Scheer is zigzagging across the country — Northwest Territories on Sunday, Alberta Monday, British Columbia Tuesday — in preparation for the fall session in Ottawa.

Along the way, he’s collecting feedback from business owners and entrepreneurs on proposed federal government changes to small business taxes.