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The company is taking the unusual step of suing through the North American Free Trade Agreement, calling the Obama administration's decision to cancel the project “arbitrary and unjustified.”

The upset victory occurred 47 years after Justin Trudeau’s father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, swept to power.

After an extraordinary boom that attracted many of the world’s largest energy companies and about $200 billion worth of investments to oil sands development over the last 15 years, the industry is in a state of financial stasis.