Justin Trudeau: Trump is 'very supportive' of the Keystone XL pipeline

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published 21 December 2016

In their first conversation after the election, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump discussed the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which was rejected by the Obama administration last year.

The pipeline would carry oil sands crude from Alberta to the U.S. Midwest, at a rate of 830,000 barrels per day. Trudeau said Wednesday in Calgary that Trump was the one who brought the pipeline up, and he "indicated that he was very supportive of it." Trudeau also said he will "work with the new administration when it gets sworn in … I'm confident that the right decisions will be taken."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.