Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and B.C. What might solve this stand-off remains to be seen, but Trudeau has already said that building the Trans Mountain pipeline is in the national interest. "We're just going to reiterate that the decision we made was in the national interest and we're going to move forward with that decision, which means we're going to get the Trans Mountain pipeline built." A court could also find that the Trans Mountain pipeline, as an inter-provincial project under federal jurisdiction, can be excluded from provincial law. Like Scheer, Singh blamed Trudeau, suggesting that if Trans Mountain had been submitted to a reform process for environmental assessment, the current dispute would have been avoided.

Source: CBC News February 07, 2018 22:00 UTC