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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Wente's point is that it doesn't really matter what Trudeau does - there is a large enough population of people in B.C. for whom pipeline expansion is essentially a religious issue, that the government would have to use force to push it through. And no federal government will take it that far. This is no longer about trade, the constitution, etc. It's about sacred beliefs. And you can't reason people out of a position they didn't reason themselves into in the first place.
Prepare yourself, because that's the likely outcome.
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Oh I don't need to prepare myself, I can see where this is going a mile away.
If this is still being debated by the next provincial election, you will see a UCP party that's basically fought this election on the pipeline, and Alberta getting screwed.
You'll see a UCP government that will be forced to take the rhetoric to an extreme.
If we see that the pipeline still isn't being built by the end of the first year of a UCP government you will see really angry people that want more, and want a harder stance and have a overly romantic view of the Alberta Government takin on the feds during the NEP. and you'll see the rise of a separatist segment of the population.
You have to wonder what Notley's next step is really going to be, threaten softwood? Seafood? Poultry. That's not as cut and dried as using the ALGC to cut off BC wine. to go after those things she really does have to break the Provincial Free Trade Deals.
Does she take it to an extreme nuclear level by threatening to step out of that agreement?
If you're an academic studying Canadian Poli-Sci this could be something to really watch.