Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is right to charge the federal government with being weak in their response to President Joe Biden’s decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline.
Considering that it will cost Canada billions of dollars and thousands of well-paying jobs across the country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s statement that, “we are disappointed but acknowledge the President’s decision to fulfil his election campaign promise” is pretty weak tea.
Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau was equally placid, telling CTV News that Canada respected and understood the decision. And, of course, Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador to the United States, also toed the timid party line, saying that Ottawa was “disappointed…We have to accept that and move forward.”
The Trudeau government’s docile response to Biden’s decision, the same weak-kneed approach they took in 2015 when former President Barack Obama cancelled Keystone XL, may very well be due to the fact that Trudeau likely considers Biden’s decision as a gift. Not to Canada, of course, but to the prime minister personally.
By killing the project, Biden has absolved Trudeau of the responsibility of having to decide between alienating his climate activist friends by continuing the project, or alienating normal Canadians across the country by cancelling it. You have to wonder if Trudeau’s private response to Biden was simply ‘thank you, Joe.’
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