Rachel Notley's Alberta NDP were elected in May 2015, and Justin Trudeau's federal Liberals were elected that October. Three days after the federal election, high-ranking insiders from both governments met at a downtown Ottawa restaurant. According to a Vancouver Sun report, there they agreed that, in exchange for Alberta agreeing to put a price on carbon as part of a federal plan, the federal government would approve the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline, then proposed by Kinder Morgan.

— The End of This World by Angele Alook, Emily Eaton, David Gray-Donald, and 3 others (Page 54)