Can the PM move Mountains?

At this rate, Justin Trudeau’s legacy could be a precedent that gives future federal governments more leeway to steamroll the environmental obstacles that stand in the way of their development ambitions.

If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is willing to pump an unspecific amount of taxpayers’ money in the project in such short order, his government (along with that of Alberta) must have concluded that the risks that the Houston-based company will otherwise walk away are real, writes Chantal Hébert.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY CHANTAL HÉBERT

April 18, 2018

Notwithstanding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to double down on the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, the plan faces the same hurdles today as it did before he hauled the feuding premiers of Alberta and British Columbia to Parliament Hill for a meeting. The federal bid to take ...

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