What are the intentions or motivations of foreign countries in financing anti-pipeline protests in Canada?
Canadians would do well to consider whether anti-pipeline protests are being financed by foreign countries whose oil will face competition from Canada's on the world market. Iran, Venezuela and Saudia Arabia come to mind. 
Of course most sensible people would like to see alternatives to fossil fuel. It's not going to happen overnight. Meanwhile, one might also pause to wonder how protestors travelled to the protest sites, and how they are heating their homes this winter. If the answer to the first question is not 'on foot' or 'on horseback', and to the second, is not, 'wood', then they are hypocrites.