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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Fair enough, but how is that on the Liberals and not the people who are actively opposing the project - BC, First Nations. What would the Conservatives have done differently to have more progress?
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The Liberal government literally didn't show up for a TMX court date where they probably would have been able to kill all the objections that cropped up after the last approval. Alberta sent lawyers to the hearing and the court agreed with them on each point and killed every objection that Alberta could speak to. The Liberals decided not to show up and because of that, the court had to accept the claims and send them on. The judge even said in his decision that the government probably had strong evidence to counter the claims of inadequate consultation, but chose to withhold evidence and submissions. If they were serious about getting it built, they probably would have made the time in a few of their lawyers schedules to show up and pretend to care.