{"id":64472,"date":"2017-01-24T21:45:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T21:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/?p=64472"},"modified":"2017-01-24T21:45:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T21:45:34","slug":"rejecting-keystone-xl-chance-for-trudeau-to-stand-up-to-trump-mulcair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/rejecting-keystone-xl-chance-for-trudeau-to-stand-up-to-trump-mulcair.html","title":{"rendered":"Rejecting Keystone XL chance for Trudeau to stand up to Trump: Mulcair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline project would be Prime Minister Justin Trudeau&#8217;s first opportunity to stand up to newly minted U.S. President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has moved to advance construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines \u2014projects shot down by the previous U.S. administration over environmental concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Mulcair, who is holding his own strategy session with MPs in Ottawa this week, has been unapologetic in his assessments of Trump, calling him &#8220;bombastic&#8221; and a &#8220;fascist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\">Trudeau cabinet welcomes Trump&#8217;s Keystone XL decision<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\">Trump gives OK to Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He calls Keystone a &#8220;massive error&#8221; for Canada and wonders if Trudeau will approve the project, given the fact the Liberal government has already approved the Kinder Morgan and Line 3 projects.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a silver lining for the NDP in Trump&#8217;s presidency, however.<\/p>\n<p>The party has long opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Trump&#8217;s executive order Monday effectively kills the controversial trade deal.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/mulcair-keystone-trump-trudeau-1.3950160?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline project would be Prime Minister Justin Trudeau&#8217;s first opportunity to stand up to newly minted U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump has moved to advance construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines \u2014projects shot down by the previous U.S. administration over environmental concerns. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-64472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}