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Varcoe: ‘Good riddance’ – Trudeau’s departure, Canada’s oilpatch and years of irreconcilable differences over energy

A dozen years ago, Justin Trudeau’s first speech as an official Liberal leadership candidate in Calgary seemed to extend an olive branch to Alberta’s oil and gas sector.

“It is wrong to use our natural wealth to divide Canadians against one another, it was the wrong way to govern in Canada in the past,” the son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau told the crowd at the Dashmesh Culture Centre in October 2012.

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