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Originally Posted by Blaster86
None of those other Provinces are asking the entire country to change how they live and how they operate their provinces to accommodate them. Just Alberta.
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Going back to the outset, this is just not how it works. Or how it's supposed to work. It's an interprovincial pipeline under federal jurisdiction. No province is asking another province to do anything, it's not supposed to be up to them. As much as the right in this province may hate it, the country was set up with a strong central federal government, essentially the opposite of what the USA did in leaving residual authority to the states. The constitution was deliberately designed that way to avoid exactly what BC and Quebec have tried to do to pipelines forever: frustrate projects that are in the national interest due to regional priorities.
The feds can decide that BC votes are more important than Alberta votes and proceed accordingly, if they want to be politically motivated rather than motivated by what's actually the right move from the perspective of national prosperity. But that's up to them, not up to BC or AB.
