Des relations un peu plus tendues entre les deux pays.
"While Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama took a chummy walk down a palm treed path outside the APEC summit in Hawaii Sunday, it was clear that the delay of a major Canadian pipeline project continues to drive a wedge in relations between the two countries.
According to official accounts of the leaders' meeting, Harper expressed his disappointment with the U.S. State Department's decision to reroute the $7-billion project and order further environmental assessment.
The 2,700-kilometre pipeline would bring crude from the new oilsands expansions in northern Alberta to be turned into gasoline and other fuels in Texas, the hub of the American refining industry.
But Obama said he supported the decision to delay TransCanada's Keystone XL project "to ensure that all questions are properly addressed and all the potential impacts are properly understood."
Earlier Sunday, Harper had said he was confident the project would eventually be approved.
He said the decision to delay the pipeline, as well as other recent U.S. decisions that have raised questions in Canada about the strength of the relationship with the U.S., were merely products of the "political season" and didn't represent a fundamental shift in American policy."
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/11/13/harper-obama-apec-meeting-hawaii_n_1090800.html?ref=canada
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