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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
This is why it's hard to stomach claims that Kenney is the leader of choice for hard-headed practical voters. The various fights he intends to pick are emotion-driven rhetorical gestures with little likelihood of achieving anything tangible. They're Trumpian sops to the frustrated and angry. I'm surprised we haven't seen Kenney standing at a podium and shouting that he'll make B.C. pay for the pipeline expansion.
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The strategy is more around identifying points of leverage and creating turmoil with the Federal government and other provinces. Basically what Quebec has been doing forever and what the BC New Democrats have been doing since they got elected. Standing by quietly while other Provinces have wiped their asses with the constitution with the Feds shrugging their shoulders hasn't worked. The point isn't changing the constitution itself, it's telling the Feds that all these headaches go away if you do the right thing and get the pipeline going. Right now they're only feeling pressure from one side.
But I can definitely agree that Kenney is riding hard along that populist line right now. Those commercials with the triumphant "strong and free" chorus in the background are a little much.