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Originally Posted by Slava
Every party here is pro-pipeline. That doesn't strike me a left/right policy in the least.
Federally, the Liberals have approved pipelines and that's an argument for another thread.
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It is definitely a left right policy, they are being ostracized for it by their counter parts in the left of the spectrum.
In Canada environmental policy is almost wholly dictated by interest on the left of the spectrum. Pipeline and energy extraction infrastructure is almost wholly the domain of the right side.
It is no small thing that the Alberta NDP have championed pipeline capacity as ardently as they have.
Their tax policy has also been incredibly centrist for a party associated in Alberta with freedom crushing socialism. Most of their tax initiatives are similar or the same as what Prentice proposed, minus a corporate tax increase. The NDP haven't implemented a sales tax as Prentice was widely rumoured to be considering. They didn't change the royalty structure in a way that penalized energy production the way stelmach did.
All in all they don't look the least bit like the Boogeyman they are made out to be. No one is going to mistake Notley for Fildebrandt but that's probably a good thing.