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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
The reason there is no point to negotiating with her is she has no incentive to negotiate in good faith. She's going to be ousted in the next election barring something miraculous, such as being able to bring home an absurd share of the royalties from the pipeline. As such she has no reason to be make reasonable demands, because unless she's bringing back an absurd amount of royalty revenue, the people of her province will vote her out (and when I mean absurd, I mean closer to 20% from the 8% they would currently get).
At that point it is too stupid economically for the people of BC to pass up, allowing Christy to sneak in the back door to get re-elected. But if she agrees to the pipeline conditions as is, she'll be tossed out right quick. Christy's first concern is her own self-survival, and as such I'd have no interest in negotiating with her.
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Sorry for the late response.
Anyways, right now she's not going to argue in "bad" faith, but as the weeks go her attitude will change, that's for sure.
But what I really want to talk about is you saying, "At that point it is too stupid economically for the people of BC to pass up". That is not true, 'we' voted out the HST, which was unbelievably stupid by any count to do so. I thought the HST was a good tax, a very good replacement to GST/PST, but that's not really the point. There is no sane, logical argument behind getting rid of a tax (it's not that horrible) and then re-pay the federal government well over a billion dollars. That's a horrible idea, but sadly the people here will never understand how that will come back to haunt us.
So my point is that the people here in British Columbia have a history of rejecting logical and sound ideas, and because the BC NDP will most likely be elected this spring, there's a small window to getting this project confirmed. Redford knows that, so she's not going to close the door shut on Clark's face.
If the pipeline ends up getting rejected by BC, which will be through the NDP, I may get fed up and move to Alberta and seclude myself. Rejecting the HST and the pipeline? Blah.