I don't think Trudeau wants any pipelines to be built in Canada. He outright canceled Northern Gateway and Energy East. He was content for Obama to do the dirty work on getting the Keystone project killed. But then when Trump was unexpectedly elected on the US side his hand was forced and he had to approve it.
So then Trans Mountain. I suspect this was a "fake" approval, with a nod to the activists to just go ahead and block the actual construction either with lawsuits, and direct illegal obstruction on the construction sites. He is using the B.C. premier, and US-funded activists as his proxies to carry out his wish to have Trans Mountain be abandoned.
Even with the press conference last Sunday there was announcement of a new act around jurisdiction. That doesn't make sense. The Federal government already has jurisdiction under the constitution. The purpose of this act is to just delay and draw things out in years of legislation and court cases. It also legitimizes the cases of those currently using lawfare to block Trans Mountain in the courts. But that is Trudeau's intent, that the project be blocked, Kinder Morgan gives up and goes away (like TransCanada did with effectively canceled Energy East).
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