Trudeau’s problem is he can’t cut a deal

What major pipeline or trade deal (of his own making) does he have to show from the first half of his government’s mandate? Not one.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heads into a meeting in Centre Block with the premiers of British Columbia and Alberta on April 15 to discuss the expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline. He came out of it saying the federal government would financially and legislatively back the pipeline's construction. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

April 18, 2018

OTTAWA—Right now, Justin Trudeau has a deal problem. Specifically, the prime minister hasn’t really closed a significant major trade or pipeline project of his making thus far in his mandate. Even his climate change plan is in potential jeopardy as new provincial actors appear on the scene beari...

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