I was kind of surprised that Trudeau approved the pipeline projects, especially the Kinder Morgan one. I'm no impassioned environmentalist beating a drum, but even I can imagine the dangers of shipping crude through the various narrow straits of BC (or drilling under them) to finally get the oil out to sea and on its way to China. 

But wait!! China is desperate to get their hands on oil and other resources.  Trudeau is close friends with that nation.  He's getting them to donate money at expensive fundraisers to the liberals.... 

I see a pattern here, why the self-avowed crusader and champion of environmentalism and carbon taxing is suddenly supporting projects that are anathema to the very environmentalist movement he's been touting.  It's always difficult when a political leader has tacitly decided to support the interests of another nation.