By Marissa Birnie United States President Donald Trump claimed Sunday that Canada would pay for the entirety of a revived Keystone XL pipeline. While the project has yet to be revived, the Prairie Connector pipeline that would reuse Keystone XL infrastructure is jointly owned by two independent companies, one Canadian and one American, with no federal funding commitments as of yet. Experts on Canada’s natural resource sector say such funding seems unlikely. THE CLAIM During a media scrum in Dubuque, Iowa, Trump said trade negotiations with Canada would include the Keystone pipeline. “They’re going to build the Keystone pipeline. They’re going to pay for it. They’re going to pay for all of it,” he said, adding that the U.S. would provide the route and Canada the financing. Both Trump and…
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