Canada Liberal leader vows improved US relations
(MENAFN- Arab News)MISSISSAUGA Ontario: Canadian Liberal leader Justin Trudeau the frontrunner in the race to the Oct. 19 election said on Friday one of his top priorities if elected will be to repair Canada's relationship with the United States.
Trudeau said relations with Canada's largest trading partner had been damaged by Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's singular focus on promoting TransCanada Corp's Keystone XL pipeline which President Barack Obama has not backed.
'If I earn Canadians' trust in four days' time it'll be one of my most crucial priorities to begin once again having a productive and constructive relationship with our closest ally and neighbor' Trudeau said during a campaign stop near Toronto. The center-left party once in third place is now more than 7 points ahead of Harper's Conservatives and 13 points in front of the left-leaning New Democrats according to some recent polls.
Trudeau campaigning in the vote-rich suburbs of Toronto said a Liberal government would focus on increased environmental oversight and reducing climate change emissions in assessing projects like the XL pipeline.
The TransCanada Corp. pipeline would carry 830000 barrels a day of mostly Canadian oil sands crude to Nebraska en route to refineries and ports along the US Gulf. It has been pending for more than six years. Obama vetoed a Republican bill approving the pipeline in February.
Foreign relations have emerged as a key difference in the platform of the frontrunners with Trudeau saying he would take a more multilateral approach to global issues than Harper who has distanced Canada from the United Nations.
Harper sent troops to Afghanistan and signed up for the mission against Islamic State with allies including Britain and the United States but the prime minister said on Friday he was not considering full ground-troop involvement in a combat mission against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
Trudeau said relations with Canada's largest trading partner had been damaged by Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's singular focus on promoting TransCanada Corp's Keystone XL pipeline which President Barack Obama has not backed.
'If I earn Canadians' trust in four days' time it'll be one of my most crucial priorities to begin once again having a productive and constructive relationship with our closest ally and neighbor' Trudeau said during a campaign stop near Toronto. The center-left party once in third place is now more than 7 points ahead of Harper's Conservatives and 13 points in front of the left-leaning New Democrats according to some recent polls.
Trudeau campaigning in the vote-rich suburbs of Toronto said a Liberal government would focus on increased environmental oversight and reducing climate change emissions in assessing projects like the XL pipeline.
The TransCanada Corp. pipeline would carry 830000 barrels a day of mostly Canadian oil sands crude to Nebraska en route to refineries and ports along the US Gulf. It has been pending for more than six years. Obama vetoed a Republican bill approving the pipeline in February.
Foreign relations have emerged as a key difference in the platform of the frontrunners with Trudeau saying he would take a more multilateral approach to global issues than Harper who has distanced Canada from the United Nations.
Harper sent troops to Afghanistan and signed up for the mission against Islamic State with allies including Britain and the United States but the prime minister said on Friday he was not considering full ground-troop involvement in a combat mission against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
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