PM Justin Trudeau. File photo by Dan Toulgoet/Vancouver Courier
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has told an Edmonton radio station the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is in the national interest and will go ahead despite B.C.'s latest effort to block it.
Trudeau was reacting Thursday to British Columbia's announcement that it plans to ban increased shipments of diluted bitumen off its coast until it can determine that shippers are prepared and able to properly clean up a spill.
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has called that an unconstitutional attempt to get around federal approval of the Kinder Morgan project to increase the capacity of its pipeline from Alberta to Burnaby for shipments to Asia.
Trudeau told radio station CHED that it's normal for provinces to have differences of opinion and that's why there is a federal government to make sure the interests of all Canadians are looked after.
