The politics behind the PM’s pipeline gamble

Allowing the Trans Mountain expansion to die this week would have cost Trudeau the support of Alberta’s NDP government for his national climate change framework.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau on Tuesday said the government would buy the existing Trans Mountain pipeline for $4.5-billion as a way to ensure the expansion project moves forward. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY CHANTAL HÉBERT

June 1, 2018

To understand the counterintuitive political calculus behind Justin Trudeau’s controversial decision to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline, one has to go back to the fundamental equation that has governed this prime minister’s energy and climate change policies since ...

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