Sadly I agree with Ms. Wente's prediction.  Some inconvenient facts for the Albertans who, having paid through the nose for their "social licence", now think it's go-time for Kinder Morgan:
* Trudeau has 17 seats in B.C.; most or all in the Fraser Valley and Van isle.
* Trudeau has 4 seats in all of Alberta.
* Anti Canadian oil NGOs, many of the U.S. funded, will be pouring anti-pipeline cash into the Liberal seats like a firehose. They have probably started already.
* Whatever fate Kinder Morgan meets goes doubly for Energy East.
There will be a huge temptation for Trudeau to passively allow the pipeline obstructors to grind down the project through deliberately weak and vacillating responses until Kinder Morgan abandons it.  One has to be a real optimist to think Trudeau will jeopardize his reelection chances in 2020 to save Rachel Notley from looking like a fool.
Albertans will find out in a year or so how far the apple has fallen from the tree.