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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has found his Tzeporah Berman.

Two days before heading to Calgary for Stampede, he held hands high with anti-pipeline activist Steven Guilbeault, the Liberals’ new candidate in the Montreal riding of Laurier.

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Guilbeault worked for Greenpeace and founded a Quebec advocacy group, Equiterre. He is a flat-out opponent of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

You’d think Guilbeault would be more at home as a candidate for the NDP or the Greens. But Laurier has been in NDP hands since 2011 and Trudeau wants it for the Liberals.

So there they were together, cheerily holding hands.

What are the plans for Guilbeault in a new Liberal government? Environment minister? Maybe natural resources?

Trudeau is obviously playing to Quebec anti-pipeline sentiment and the will of the province’s national assembly.

He has never criticized a unanimous assembly motion that virtually usurped Ottawa’s power to regulate and approve pipelines.