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Originally Posted by transplant99
Then I would expect that during a campaign she would be screaming from the rooftops how she will champion all the new pipelines we could possibly build and to get every ounce of oil out of the ground we can to really get the economy going and gets people working good paying jobs....etc, all while using the carbon tax to actually lower emissions (a lie) so there would be a positive trade off. She should be screaming bloody murder on C-69, but nary a peep.
Instead all she prattles on about is that Kenney was in Ottawa and while there...no new pipelines were built (which is patently false, but i digress) and that going forward we cant look to the past. Not sure what that has to do with her actively and pruposely helping destroy Northern Gateway and EE. At the very least I would never ever expect a sitting premier who wants pipeline capacity to be the most it can, to appoint a former Pembina Institute director and well known anti-oil activist (as well as being on the Tides payroll) to a 5 year stint on the AER. I would never have expected she would hire Bermman and I sure as hell would not expect her to appoint Shannon freaking Phillips as the Enviroment Minister. I mean its just absurd to not see whats going on unless you dont wish to.
Instead she actually suggests that petro-chemical plants are the wave of the future for this province industrial sector.......all the while there are literally hundreds of billions of dollars just sitting in the ground that can be extracted and sold as among the most responsibly mined resources on earth.
She is a great leader for that party and certainly has a charisma that people bought into 4 years ago and may so again. That does not preclude her from being very anti-oil. Her hiring and appointments only reinforce that.
To believe anything else is beyond naive.
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Bill C 69 is already being killed by the Senate and frankly it is difficult to really understand what substantive changes it would make anyways. Most people who clamour on about Bill C 69 have no real idea what is in it. Why bother?