Premiership of Justin Trudeau However, the Trudeau government pushes to build several pipelines across Canada in order to sell crude oil from Alberta's oil sands. Whether it is in Quebec or in British Columbia, the opposition is very strong against those pipelines. The opposition to new pipelines took a step forward when BC Premier, John Horgan said that no pipeline transporting oil from Alberta would pass through BC. Soon after, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said that no more BC wines would be sold in Alberta. As a well known self described feminist, Justin Trudeau nominated a gender balanced cabinet consisting of 15 men and
Justin Trudeau André Ouellet, a senior minister under his father, had been in Liberal hands for 53 years before falling to the Bloc Québécois in 2006. Trudeau faced off against Mary Deros, a Montreal city councillor and Basilio Giordano, the publisher of a local Italian-language newspaper for the Liberal nomination. On April 29, 2007, he easily won the party's nomination, picking up 690 votes to 350 for Deros and 220 for Giordano. Prime Minister Stephen Harper called an election for 14 October 2008, by which time Trudeau had been campaigning for a year in Papineau. On election day Trudeau narrowly defeated Bloc