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arikara

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Tue Nov 11, 2014, 02:07 AM Nov 2014

Justin Trudeau To Protesters: 'Take A Minute To Explain'

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau dealt with a small group of people protesting against the Energy East pipeline by briefly giving them the floor during an event in Toronto on Monday.

"Take a minute to explain to people your position and then we'll get back to this," Trudeau said during a Q&A about his memoir, Common Ground, at the Toronto Reference Library.

In a video from the event, two protesters carrying a sign about the proposed Energy East pipeline (what the sign says is obscured by the crowd) move to the front of the room, with a security guard standing nearby. It isn't clear from the video whether there were more protesters in attendance.

"Canada will fail every climate target if it goes through," one protester says of the pipeline, which would run from Alberta to New Brunswick. "As a young person, I want you, Mr. Trudeau, to call for a full climate review of Energy East."

After the man's brief speech, Trudeau urges the crowd to give the protesters a round of applause, which they do.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/11/10/justin-trudeau-pipeline_n_6136938.html

Wow, I'm impressed. He's seriously winning me over by doing this kind of stuff. Politicians haven't done anything like this since I don't remember when.

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