Canada is no longer a country, but a collection of 'special interest groups'.  That pipeline was doomed the day that we elected Gerald Butts to run this country through his puppet regime.  Provinces, local mayors,  native bands, environmental groups (supported and funded by Putin?)...all in the way of Canada being self-sufficient in oil by producing and refining it all in this country instead of relying on overseas shipments to supply the Eastern half.

Butts was integral in destroying the Ontario economy with his phony green energy plan and sky-high electricity pricing, and now he's doing it to the whole country.

The government doesn't have to explicitly do anything but kill these projects through a thousand cuts, and then they can blame 'market forces'.

I wish now that somebody would look at the option of running tanker ships of Alberta oil down the St. Lawrence Seaway from Thunder Bay, ON to St. John, NB.  They could toot their horns at the mayor of Montreal as they go by.