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   Alberta’s Jason Kenney and Saskatchewan’s Scott Moe spent Thursday morning selling their province to an American audience at the Wilson Center in the American capital. Ford spent Thursday afternoon speaking to the Canadian American Business Council and a group of executives about what Ontario has to offer.

   Meanwhile, Reuters is reporting that Trudeau’s Liberals are looking to put together an “aid package” for Alberta because they are seriously considering rejecting a new oil sands development. You read that correctly, the federal government is considering an aid package to Alberta, like we send to poorer countries after a natural disaster, because they may turn down a viable energy project that has been approved by the National Energy Board after meeting strict environmental and scientific hurdles.
   This may seem like just a concern for oil rich Alberta, and there are plenty of Canadians who will foolishly say, let them keep the oil in the ground, we don’t need it. The problem is the signal that the Trudeau Liberals are sending to the world is that Canada is actually closed for business, that big projects can’t get approval.