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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to be in Edmonton Wednesday for interviews, a meeting with the premier and a party fundraiser, days after a federal court dealt a major setback to the Trans Mountain pipeline.

Cheryl Oates, press secretary to Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, said Tuesday that Trudeau and Notley would be meeting Wednesday afternoon but had no further details.

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Trudeau is slated to be interviewed on 630 CHED at 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, followed by an evening party fundraiser at Delta Hotels Edmonton South on Gateway Boulevard. Trudeau’s full itinerary had not been released by Tuesday afternoon.

The visit comes after Trudeau committed federal funding to two major rapid transit projects in Metro Vancouver Tuesday.

Ottawa and B.C. are spending more than $3 billion on the Broadway subway project in Vancouver and a new light rail transit line in Surrey, B.C.

It also comes days after the Federal Court of Appeal overturned the National Energy Board’s approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The decision halted construction that had begun west of Edmonton and forces the government to examine the line’s impacts on tanker traffic and consult more deeply with Indigenous groups.