Trudeau Team Seeks to Calm Oil Patch Fears of Pipeline Debacle
- Finance Minister vows to proceed with Trans Mountain expansion
- Cancelling the line isn’t among NDP’s demands for coalition
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One of Justin Trudeau’s top lieutenants says the Canadian prime minister will proceed with an expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline even as he’s now likely to share power with the more environmentally minded New Democratic Party.
“We will move forward on this project because we know it is the right thing to do,” Finance Minister Bill Morneau, who was re-elected to parliament Monday night, said in an interview with BNN Bloomberg Television. “We need to ensure we get access to global markets.”