Key ? After Emergency Cabinet Meeting; Will Trudeau Send Police/Military For Pipeline Construction?
If the federal cabinet came up with a plan in its emergency meeting on the troubled Trans Mountain pipeline expansion Tuesday, no one is saying. The meeting followed Kinder Morgan’s Sunday announcement that it was suspending all “non-essential spending” on the $7.4-billion project because of the B.C. government’s opposition.
But Burnaby South NDP MP Kennedy Stewart said he was concerned about repressive measures. He would be “shocked,” but not entirely surprised, if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government invoked the Emergencies Act, which replaced the War Measures Act used by Trudeau’s father, Pierre, during the 1970 FLQ crisis in Quebec.
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Stewart’s concern is supported by Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr’s 2016 speech warning that if Trans Mountain opponents “choose for their own reasons not to be peaceful,” the federal government, “through its defence forces, through its police forces, will ensure that people will be kept safe.” Carr later said that “no warning [was] intended,” and recently said that now is not the “time to issue threats.”
Stewart said the government is being advised as to what would happen if it uses the Emergencies Act. “It would mean that Kinder Morgan workers would be escorted by military personnel and police to build the pipeline,” he said. “Even more seriously, I’ve been told that the RCMP and generals would take control of the operation.” Stewart expects there would be “massive resistance” to such an approach by the Trudeau government. “If that happens, it will be like nothing we have ever seen in Canada,” he said.
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https://thetyee.ca/News/2018/04/11/Kinder-Morgan-Making-Canadian-History/
