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Originally Posted by stone hands
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The leverage is in kicking all of this off, and the Feds appetite for the risk potential of equalization being changed (which is small, admittedly) vs just doing what should have been done all along and ensuring the construction of coastal export pipelines. It's a desperate move for a desperate situation and unfortunately we're there. Unemployment, the Province being under curtailment, capped out takeway capacity, and the ever present threat of the differential blowing out again causing us to sell the world's cheapest crude for $5/bbl. It's desperate times man, that's the other side of this equation that people aren't appreciating. If cabinet approves TMX and it starts construction this year with guarantees of being able to export bitumen through Port of Vancouver we have no problems. If not, if it's delayed, the vital economic interests of Alberta are under threat and it's time to act and start pulling #### like this. I appreciate that stopping something is easier than building something but look at all the success Horgan has had at blatantly flaunting clear constitutional and Federal gov authority, it really doesn't seem to count for much these days.