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Notley had demanded an immediate recall of federal parliamentarians, to sort out what to do in response to last Thursday’s ruling, as well as an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. Neither has happened yet, though Trudeau and Sohi, also a member of parliament for an Edmonton riding, have repeatedly said they’re weighing how to proceed in order to get the expansion built.

“We would like to see shovels in the ground as quickly as possible and there is no question about that, this is a priority for Alberta, this is a priority for the country,” Trudeau told reporters Wednesday.

At Trudeau’s first stop, an appearance on Edmonton’s 630 CHED talk radio station, he insisted, between shots at Stephen Harper’s previous Conservative government, there was a path to get the pipeline built — “We’re obviously looking at different options from legislation to the court process,” he said — while downplaying the suggestion that there was any immediate or simple route to doing so.

“The court actually gives a path forward, it says you need to do better and deeper consultations with Indigenous peoples, if you want to get projects like this built and you have to make sure you’re taking into account all the environmental impacts,” Trudeau said. “The approach the Conservatives take of saying, ‘Oh we should just wave a magic wand and get it built’ is not going to work in Canada.”