[Buckeye McFrog]

Now that Trudeau has been elected, it will be a mutual decision. Canada will support it as part of climate change efforts.

Doubtful. Canada is going to need the tar sands more then ever to pay for Trudeau's big welfare bills. Socialist countries are always the dirtiest on the planet.

[kabar]

So Canada’s new Prime Minister now faces a diplomatic balancing act, and it’s likely that his promise to improve country’s relationship with the U.S. will take priority over his support for Alberta’s troubled oil industry, analysts say.

“This is a major diplomatic irritant,” said Adam Scott, the Climate and Energy program manager for Environmental Defence, which opposes the pipeline. “A new Prime Minister would want to move on and rebuild this relationship.

“Its not a deal breaker,” for Trudeau’s relationship with Obama like it was for Trudeau’s predecessor Stephen Harper, Scott said.