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OTTAWA — A B.C. Liberal MP, citing “overwhelming” West Coast opposition to the proposed $6.8-billion Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, is urging the Trudeau government to reject the proposal.

The planned tripling of the company’s pipeline capacity to its Burnaby terminal “is detrimental to British Columbia and the project should not proceed,” Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam MP Ron McKinnon said in a letter sent Wednesday to Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr and provided exclusively to Postmedia News.

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“I ask you to listen to the collective wisdom of British Columbians.”

The rookie MP’s outspoken stand comes as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet weighs the delicate and deeply divisive project that would increase oil tanker traffic into Burrard Inlet to 34 visits a month from five.

Trudeau and Carr have said repeatedly that the Liberal government, which must decide on Kinder Morgan by Dec. 19, wants to help struggling Alberta get its oilsands bitumen to Asian markets through a B.C. port.