Today is not a good day for Canada. It is not a good day for the federation. It is a very bad day for the west.
TransCanada made the decision to cancel Energy East but make no mistake, the reasons for it fall at the feet of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the federal government. They have been, at best, ambivalent about the project and then moved the goalposts at the last moment by asking the regulator to consider the impact of upstream greenhouse gas emissions.
