While the Bloc Québécois and the Liberals may find common ground in a minority government scenario on policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the Bloc will follow its “duty” to fight the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion, its leader Yves-François Blanchet says.

“When there will be some initiatives brought forward in order to reduce our emissions, to improve the huge problem of climate change, we will be open to discussion,” Blanchet told reporters on Parliament Hill.

The Bloc leader met with Trudeau for about a half an hour on Wednesday morning.

On his way into the meeting with Blanchet, Trudeau was asked by a reporter what common ground the Liberals and the Bloc share, to which he responded, “climate change.”

“However, each and every time we have the duty to remind this government that they are also promoting the extraction, exportation, consumption of oil throughout the world, which is destroying the effect of what they are trying to do on the other end,” Blanchet added.

The governing Liberals bought the Trans Mountain Pipeline and its planned expansion project in 2018. The government has maintained its intention to build the pipeline to increase the amount of oil that can be sent to British Columbia’s coast to export to international markets throughout difficulties that have included a Federal Court ruling that sidelined the project just months after Ottawa’s purchase.

The 32-seat Bloc is one of three parties — along with the 24-seat NDP and the 121-seat Conservatives — that have enough seats in the House of Commons to support the 157-seat Liberal minority on motions of confidence. In a full House, the Liberals need 169 votes on confidence motions to maintain the government and keep the country from returning to an election. In the case of a tie, convention dictates that the speaker vote to continue the existing Parliament, which, in almost all cases, would mean supporting the government.

The House will make its first return since the Oct. 21 election on Dec. 5, and the first vote of confidence for the Liberals could be the traditional Speech from the Throne, which the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said would take place that same day, after the election of the speaker.

Blanchet indicated Wednesday that the government would have the Bloc’s support on the vote that follows the Governor General’s delivery of the throne speech.

“I don’t want to see the Speech from the Throne as a source of problems. I want to see it as a source of solutions and progress for the benefit of Quebecers who gave us a mandate and gave the other part of the mandate to the government,” Blanchet said.

He said he doesn’t expect the throne speech to address Quebec’s secularism law. Known as Bill 21, it was passed by the Coalition Avenir Québec government this year. It prevents workers in the public sector from wearing religious symbols, such as hijabs or crosses, while on the job. The law is strongly supported in Quebec. Trudeau said during the election campaign that he wouldn’t rule out using federal powers to intervene in the law “at a later date.”

“This is not an issue in the short term, however I am absolutely convinced that the prime minister understands completely that we’ll keep protecting the legitimate jurisdiction of the Assembly National of Quebec,” Blanchet said when questioned about Bill 21.

When asked whether he had any advice for Canada’s provinces in the West, where some premiers have stoked sentiment about greater independence within the federation since the election, Blanchet wouldn’t offer any.

“If they were attempting to create a Green state in Western Canada, I might be tempted to help them; if they are trying to create an oil state in Western Canada they cannot expect any help from us,” the leader of the federal Quebec separatist party said.

Trudeau did not speak to media following Wednesday’s meeting. He hasn’t spoken to reporters following any of his meetings with other political leaders in the past week. Along with Blanchet, the prime minister has hosted sit-downs with Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister.

Trudeau has planned to meet with each of the federal political leaders, checking off Scheer from that list first on Tuesday. Scheer told reporters afterwards that he used the meeting to explain the Conservatives’ priorities. The concerns he set out included the construction of a national energy corridor, putting together a plan for constructing the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion project, implementing tax cuts and addressing what he called a “crisis” of national unity.

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A PMO spokesperson said Trudeau will meet with NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh on Thursday and outgoing Green Party leader Elizabeth May on Friday. May said she is stepping down from the top job of the Green party, which she’s led since 2006, but that she will remain the party’s leader in Parliament.

Following his meeting with Trudeau on Friday, Pallister said there needs to be more federal leadership over the concern of unity in Canada.

“Unification efforts and a willingness to change one’s approach are important things, and deeds are much more powerful than words,” Pallister said.

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Moe struck a more negative tone after meeting with the prime minister on Tuesday, saying he didn’t hear “anything different” from Trudeau, who he and other right-leaning premiers spent much of the last year publicly clashing with over issues that included the federal tax on carbon emissions.

Moe said Trudeau wouldn’t commit to any of his proposals that he brought to Ottawa, which included a request to put a moratorium on the carbon tax in his province and to consider an amended federal equalization payment program.

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The PMO also said Trudeau is looking forward to having one-on-one meetings with the remaining premiers “in the near future.”

“We are committed to making Parliament work for all Canadians, and will continue having constructive discussions with Premiers, Mayors, and other parties to address issues right across the country. In addition to ensuring this Parliament works, Canadians expect our government to make life more affordable for them and fight climate change,” PMO spokesperson Eleanore Catenaro told iPolitics in an emailed statement.

With files from Rachel Emmanuel

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