the government stunning move to keep the trans mountain pipeline alive as r.t. course by alex michel that welcome thank you so alex look environmentalists progressives are there you know heads are exploding in anger all over this move by trudeau i mean even that naomi klein tweeting out that you know basically that how justin trudeau knows of this decision is going to haunt him everywhere he goes and she even said his days of getting out of canada to bask in the pouring selfies are over so i got to ask why is making this controversial move i know it was for the pipeline but it goes dead in the water how does this benefit him creating this many enemies well you know i think he has a very difficult time picking war girls as is sometimes he's been do when he's in india sometimes he's i don't know what when he's in another country and this time around it looks like am i in oil baron with a stetson hat or am i an environmentalist nobody knows anymore he's all over the place and what he's trying to do here really is appease everybody but he's not appeasing anybody alb

and canada has opened its wallet to buy the trans mountain pipeline a move which has angered both of those on the left and right of the political spectrum the country's federal government is spending nearly three point five billion dollars to buy the pipeline at all the texas and all of the texas based morgan's core assets in china and canada rather artie's alex behind which joins us from toronto not china with more alex what's the federal government's logic in buying that controversial trans mountain pipeline we've talked about that thing many times that it seems like others lots of trouble there. oh yeah this is either a step forward or a step backwards according to your speaking to looks like prime minister trudeau who everybody thought wanted to be an environmentalist looks more like you know stetson hat texan oil baron or executive as he pushes this project through and they're buying this pipeline now we've talked about this pipeline as you mentioned here at the map kind of proves what this is and shows some of the controversial parts of it the fact we have a sixty year old leak

the canadian government has taken over the trans mountain pipeline, the can or morgan pipeline.e will speak with indigenous activist about what this means. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. nermeen: we now turn to canada, where prime minister justin trudeau has announced that the canadian government will purcrchase t highly cocontested kinder morgan pipeline, vowing to commit taxpayer money to the project despite widespread indigenous-led protests and a slew of lawsuits. if built, the pipeline will triple the amount of oil flowing from alberta's tar sands to the coast of british columbia. oil giant kinderer morgan had sd that if legal challenges were not resolved by may 31, it would abandon plans to build the proposed pipeline expansion. the canadian government stepped in and purchased the pipeline for 4.5 billion canadian dollars -- $3.5 billion american -- just days before this deadline. the decision has sparked widespread condemnation from first nations and environmental

to discuss prime minister trudeau and they can eighty and government stunning move to get the trans mountain pipeline alive as r.t. correspondent alex my comments welcome thank you so alex look environmentalists progressives are there you know heads are exploding in anger all over this move by trudeau i mean even that naomi klein tweeting out that like you know basically that's how justin trudeau knows that this decision is going to haunt him everywhere he goes and she even said his days of getting out of canada to bask in the pouring selfies are over so i got to ask why is making this controversial move i know it was for the pipeline but it goes dead in the water how does this benefit him creating this many enemies. well you know i think he has a very difficult time picking or girl does is sometimes he's moving in do when he's in india sometimes he's i don't know what when he's in another country and this time around it looks like am i in oil bearing with a stetson hat or am i an environmentalist nobody knows anymore he's all over the place and what he's trying to do here really is appease

to keep the trans mountain pipeline alive as r.t. course by alex my comments welcome. thank you alex look environmentalists progressive. heads are exploding in anger all over this move by i mean even that naomi klein tweeting out like you know basically that justin trudeau knows the decision is going to haunt him everywhere he goes and she even said of days of getting out of canada the bask in the selfie there are over so i got to ask why you making this controversial move i know it was for the pipeline but it goes in the water how does this benefit him creating this many enemies. well you know i think he has a very difficult time picking your girl jazz's sometimes he's moving in do when he's in india sometimes he's i don't know what when he's in another country and this time around it looks like am i in oil bearing with a stetson hat or am i an environmentalist nobody knows anymore he's all over the place and what he's trying to do here really is appease everybody but he's not appeasing anybody alberta's the big question here it's the province with the tar sands with