The good thing about Kenney is I actually do think he's intelligent. A corrupt and terrible person, absolutely, but intelligent. He's just using this rhetoric to get his base in a frenzy, I don't think he's going to go full Trump "We'll get a pipeline built and we'll have the First Nations pay for it." He knows the referendum is useless and knows that the pipeline decision is coming up anyways and given the relatively minute hurdles in the Court of Appeal the Trudeau Government will, again, be able to approve Trans Mountain and then the other minor hurdles coming from the BC government will be able to be fought through the courts while the shovels are in the ground.
The idea that Trudeau, who already approved the project, who has expressed his support for the project, and has bought the project, is going to go against it this time around and that Kenney needs to strongarm them is pretty comical.
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