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Originally Posted by Jacks
Yes. Charest (past tense) and McGuinty are one thing, they are trying to win seats in their provinces only. Mulcair is supposedly looking to govern the entire country and pitting one region against another is not exactly inspiring leadership.
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Yes, he wants to govern the entire country, but that will only occur by winning seats out East. You don't win elections by trying to appeal to everyone on every subject. And he isn't pitting one region against another, he is pitting the people against the evil tar sands (the master polluters and duck murderers).
Mulcair is trying to highlight this as a "problem" that is causing manufacturing hardships out East. This gives those people something tangible to explain their current woes and lets them think things can be made better by "attacking" the oilsands (reducing output, methods, etc).
I can't say I really blame him, I mean, why
not attack the oilsands right now, its a very popular/easy thing for people to hate, and if it helps you show your voters that it is also the cause of job problems, its a double whammy win. (despite being based mostly on lies)