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Originally Posted by GGG
One action the liberal government could take would be to underwrite the costs to Kinder Morgan due to regulatory or protest based delays.
Essentially put money down that Canada will ensure the pipeline is completed ontime or if late its not due to internal law suits between provinces.
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True but something like that will never happen, because once he actually takes a step like that, he not only loses his BC vote, but he also will lose the further left votes in quebec and Ontario that backed him over the NDP in the strategic vote beat Harper movement in the last election.
While it's viewed as ok to support companies in Quebec like Bombardier or the manufacturing and Auto Industry in Quebec.
Publicly putting money into the Oil industry that supports Alberta Oil Sands or pipelines will be political suicide for the Liberals and they'll be fighting a war on multiple sides, Environmentalists, BC leftists, Natives.