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Originally Posted by flamesfever
It's Carney's environmental bias we are most worried about. He doesn't seem to be going out of his way to allay our fears.
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Best case scenario is this:
Carney needs all the progressive votes he can get and he needs Quebec, since the CPCs vote share is holding at near-historic highs. He can't strongly support pipelines if he wants those votes, and he's unlikely to get many conservative votes no matter what position he takes, so he has been pretty mealy mouthed about it.
Post-election, with a majority, he can claim national emergency and pivot to support at least some pipelines and O&G activity, since he's smart enough to know the economic importance and the potential unity issues if he doesn't.
Will he? I guess we'll see.