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OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau should be standing up to Donald Trump, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair said Tuesday as he urged the prime minister to push back against the U.S. president’s newly enshrined support for the Keystone XL pipeline.

Keystone XL is the perfect opportunity for Trudeau to show a little resistance to the infamously protectionist Trump, Mulcair said in advance of a strategy session with his fellow New Democrat caucus members.

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Trump catapulted Keystone back into the headlines with the stroke of a pen Tuesday as he signed an executive order offering pre-emptive — and highly conditional — support for a pipeline rejected by the Obama administration over environmental concerns.

Moving ahead with it would be a “massive error” for Canada, said Mulcair, who pointed out the Liberal government has already given its conditional approval to the Kinder Morgan line in B.C. and Enbridge’s Line 3 between Alberta and Manitoba.