Trudeau vows to ram through oil pipeline over BC resistance

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has vowed to roll over opposition from British Columbia and see that an 890,000-barrel-a-day oil pipeline is completed linking Alberta oil fields with an oil export port just east of Vancouver.

"This is something Canadians expect us to do and quite frankly international investors who look at creating jobs in Canada want to see us able to do," Trudeau told the press Sunday, after a meeting with B.C. Premier John Horgan and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley.

The British Columbia government has opposed the $7.4 billion project, fearful of environmental and economic damage that a tanker spill would do to the Salish Sea, Gulf Islands and San Juan Islands, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the West Coast.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee voiced worries about the project after a recent meeting with Horgan in Vancouver.

Seven thousand people marched through Burnaby, B.C., last month in opposition to the pipeline. About 200 people, including two members of Canada's House of Commons, have been arrested in anti-pipeline protests.

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