Image: Business in Vancouver Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Vancouver Thursday November 1 speaking about Canadian free trade deals. Canada will soon have preferential access to two-thirds of the global economy, thanks to three new or renewed free trade agreements, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a sold-out event at the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade Thursday, November 1. He also promised that it will have a new pipeline, once it has met the direction of the Appeal Court of Canada on the halted $7.4 billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Trudeau spoke on a range of topics of importance to the B.C. business community, from the $40 billion LNG Canada project and Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, to removing interprovincial trade barriers and bolstering Canada’s labour pools through targeted immigration. Stay current on industry headlines, upcoming events and gain access to specialty reports by subscribing to our free daily oil and gas e-news alert. He also took the opportunity to take a swipe at Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer for having no alternative plan to the Trudeau government’s national carbon pricing scheme. Trudeau took credit for “an unemployment rate that is the lowest it has been for 40 years,” and […]
