Social license has nothing to do with voter polls, and everything to do with we agree to a carbon tax and the surrounding provinces clear the way for us to get our product to tide water, and the Federal Government enforces the constitution.
Instead we agreed to a carbon tax, BC and Quebec and Ontario slammed the door on the pipelines and the Federal Government sat on its a%% until it was faced with either buying the pipeline for 4.5 billion or facing a lawsuit by Kinder Morgan against the Federal Government BC and Alberta worth twice that much and an even more massive drop in investor confidence in the energy sector.
If the concept of social license is based around voter polls its a even more worthless concept as the various governments frankly ignore those polls to kill the pipelines.
The fact that we have to sign onto concepts like "Social Licenses" in order to get the constitution enforced really reflects how broken the national concept is.
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