While Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a lengthy address extolling the pipeline amid a crowd of dignitaries, onlookers and reporters in Fort McMurray, Alta., the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) railway estimate landed on Ottawa computer screens with the technological equivalent of a thud. The pipeline extravaganza offered cameras, drama, political luminaries and front-page treatment; the PBO report ran straight into doubters wondering why yet another kick was being taken at a creaky old can, while Conservatives pledged that, given the opportunity, they’d kibosh the whole wild idea.
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