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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
NDP will probably subsidize gas prices to keep it down. Then what? Unfortunately patience is the best approach here. NDP isn't going to force a snap election right now by pissing off the Greens. As much as people want this to be straightforward, it's just not. Trying to bully this through is unlikely to work and is more likely to have the opposite effect of hardening opposition.
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Unfortunately nothing much is going to work at this point, we're basically screwed and have been screwed on this file.
From a Federal Standpoint, they could have done way more then they did. Appeal the FAC ruling, declare the pipeline in the national interest etc etc.
But they didn't they sat on their asses and got cornered into buying the pipeline.
Provinically Notley talked a lot but her actions on this were a combination of hands sitting or backing down.
Wine ban backed down on
The whole stomping scene with the there is no carbon tax without Alberta and then . . . nothing
Yes turning off the tapes, especially after the courts said we were in our rights to do it.
The concept of social license completely failed, she got stabbed in the back to the point where she went to the Federal Government for help on the train cars and was basically ignored.
She was incredibly silent on C-69 and C-48 up until the last week of the election.
Look, there's nothing wrong with putting some pressure on the Federal Government and BC provincial government. When Trudeau sat there grinning with Horgan while handing out a big novelty check after BC had run to court again to block the pipeline was a slap in Notley face.
She can talk about going out and talking to people, but really she's been highly ineffective. Quebec and the no appetite for pipelines. The Trudeau government doing very little, BC constantly blocking.
At this point, its nice to say well 6/10 BC'ers support the pipeline, but at the end of the day does that change their voting habits in the next election, I doubt it, I expect another 4 years of the NDP government blocking the pipeline.
At this point, there's nothing to be lost by being a lot more force ful. We've spent the last 4 years with the honey approach, and frankly it hasn't yielded any results, instead its resulted in harm to our economy and a massive loss of investment.
I have zero faith in any pipeline construction happening in the next few years. There are too many factors against it, and the soft approach has emboldened those that want to stop it.