Killing Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Would Devastate Indigenous Communities

The Trudeau government must ensure Trans Mountain gets built for the sake of energy security and indigenous prosperity

Heavy equipment on the site of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project at the company's Burnaby Terminal tank farm in Burnaby, B.C., on March 10, 2021. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Commentary

Ottawa needs to finally declare through legislation that the Trans Mountain Expansion Project is to the national advantage of Canada. Doing so would prove to the Canadian public and indigenous communities that the federal government is serious about seeing it completed.