Canada will take financial and legislative action to make pipeline happen: Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government has the authority to ensure the Trans Mountain pipeline is built and is taking financial and legislative actions to make it happen.
"I have instructed the minister of finance to initiate formal financial discussions with Kinder Morgan, the result of which will be to remove the uncertainty overhanging the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project," Trudeau said after meeting with Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and B.C. Premier John Horgan in Ottawa.
Trudeau said the financial discussions with Kinder Morgan will not be in public but that "construction will go ahead."
"I have also informed premiers Notley and Horgan today that we are actively pursuing legislative options that will assert and reinforce the government of Canada's jurisdiction in this matter which we know we clearly have," he added.
CBC news reported.