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Rail cars arrive in Milton, N.D., loaded with pipe for the first Keystone Pipeline project, in 2008. A new oil pipeline is included on a draft list of federal government nation-building projects obtained by The Globe last week.

Just like that, the Canadian oil patch is a pariah no more.

Mere months ago, the oil and gas sector was seen as poisonous by politicians, environmentalists and investors alike.

But in a time of economic hostility, conventional energy is being reframed as a tool for Canada’s economic survival and independence.

Big projects are on the table of the sort that the industry long wrote off. A new pipeline to the Pacific Coast. Port expansions to access overseas markets. Prime Minister Mark Carney has signalled a break from the politics of the past decade w

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