Federal cabinet minister Joanne Thompson doesn’t believe that a Bay du Nord agreement would have been in the cards under a Trudeau government.

The deal sees the federal government foot the bill for royalties for a UN agreement for work outside the 200-nautical-mile limit, offsetting about a billion dollars.

Thompson says Prime Minister Mark Carney is “doing things differently.”

“I often think to a (year) ago what it looked like in the country, what it looked like in the globe,” she told reporters.

“It is a different space and I think our current Prime Minister Carney is the leader for this moment.”