Trudeau Seeks Talks With Kinder After Failing to Ease Pipeline Spat
- Canadian prime minister flew from Peru to try to end impasse
- Kinder Morgan halted project a week ago citing politics
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to start talks with Kinder Morgan Inc. to backstop the Trans Mountain pipeline after failing to end a spat between Canadian provinces that put the vital project at risk.
“We are going to get the pipeline built. It is a project in the national interest,” Trudeau told reporters Sunday after meeting with premiers of British Columbia and Alberta. He asked Finance Minister Bill Morneau to launch a “formal financial discussion” with the company to hedge risk over the project and said he was preparing legislation to underscore federal jurisdiction over the line. “We will not have the discussions in public but this project will go ahead.”