Alberta Premier Danielle Smith credited former prime minister Justin Trudeau for creating the independence movement in her province, thanks to a litany of nine “bad laws” — and his successor, Mark Carney, for taking the wind out of separatism with “good policy that genuinely addresses the concerns of Albertans.”

When Trudeau travelled to Calgary almost five years ago to the day, he was greeted by thousands of protesters, who besieged the hotel where he was speaking. At the time, the discount on Canadian crude, compared to the benchmark WTI, was $40 a barrel, largely because of a lack of pipeline capacity.

(It is currently less than $12, thanks in large measure to the Trans Mountain expansion that, ironically, Trudeau helped facilitate by buying the pipeline).

In 2018, the oilpatch was l

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