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Originally Posted by MarchHare
The context of this statement is that he's blaming The Harper Government for delaying the American approval of the pipeline. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine if that accusation has any merit, but he's not at all saying he doesn't support Keystone XL; rather, he's saying that if he were PM, he would have taken steps to obtain approval from the US State Department faster than what Harper has accomplished.
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As a party leader, who's first concern should be the economics of the thing. The message is simple, the State department has given their sign up, they've said that environmentally the impact of the Pipeline is negligible if not better then running fuels through rail, there's no reason not to approve it.
Trudeau''s statement as a party leader is one that shouldn't be made at this point, he's playing partisan politics with something of vast importance to this countries economy, and giving ammunition to American anti-keystone groups.