ah yes, the song with lyrical platitudes where
Eva Peron member kimmy tries to win the favour of the people of Alberta!
Trudeau campaigned around Quebec and Toronto on "fighting Jason Kenney" and "standing up to big oil". That might be a vote-getter in Toronto and Quebec, reaching for those cheap easy lines to win votes comes with a cost. Scoring cheap political points by attacking some hated "other" is a long-standing political tactic, but it tends to not go over well with the people you've "othered".
"I've heard your frustration and I want to be there to support you" has to actually mean something, it can't just be words.
if only member kimmy had put some quoted/cited specificity into her statement about PM Trudeau "scoring cheap political points"..... by, as she states, "fighting Jason Kenney & standing up to big oil" -
if only! Giving member kimmy the benefit of the doubt, that missing specificity leads the waldo to surmise member kimmy is speaking to the carbon tax. Now certainly Alberta Premier Kenney (and his fellow Conservative Premiers... along with weak Andy) is against a carbon tax, but Big Oil has long ago come out in favour of a carbon tax. How did member kimmy get this so wrong? In any case, this claimed duplicity by PM Trudeau was... is... a favoured point of stated hyprocrisy by climate activists wailing on about, "how can the Liberals balance proposing a carbon tax while also buying/favouring the TMX pipeline"? Of course, this apparent contradiction has been explained many times over before and throughout the campaign; accordingly, if member kimmy was knowledgeable... topical... on this point, she would recognize, appreciate and accept that one can, "fight Jason Kenney over the carbon tax... while still working for Albertans to realize a TMX pipeline to tidewater" - go figure, hey!
Alberta didn't want the gov't to buy the pipeline, they wanted the pipeline to get built. And that still isn't happening, after a botched round of consultations and new court challenges claiming that the new redone consultations were also botched. The timeline keeps getting pushed back.
waldo pro-tip: if one presumes to speak to the Liberal government rationale behind a TMX pipeline purchase, one should actually understand key background facets before embarrassing oneself!
=> Harper Conservatives 2014 Canada-China FIPA includes a Canadian commitment to build a tidewater pipeline in exchange for the mega tarsands investments that China made/pledged to make
=> {former} Alberta Premier Rachel Notley openly stated the TMX pipeline approval was integral to allowing Alberta to accept a tarsands emissions cap in the form of passed legislation... law... the Oil Sands Emissions Limit Act
=> the tarsands emissions cap became a key element of both Alberta Premier Notley and PM Trudeau’s respective strategies to cut overall carbon emissions
=> without the Liberal government purchase of the TMX pipeline, Kinder Morgan was quite willing to shutter the expansion plan and walk away from the millions of investment dollars it had already spent - that purchase kept the pipeline expansion viable.
as for member kimmy's emphasis on "botched consultations":
- Harper Conservatives did not realize a tidewater pipeline... even after governing for a full decade
- the first consultation round, effectively, relied significantly upon the work/process put forward by the Harper government... simply a move by the Liberal government to attempt to expedite the process and realize a pipeline result sooner... than later - imagine that! With the resulting judicial push back, it's easy to suggest the Liberal government should have "done better" and outright scrapped the Harper Conservative work... and started over! Yes, ain't hindsight reliance an easy go-to!
- effectively, the second consultation round was that "start over" - with the 1st round judicial ruling as guideline oversight. And now member kimmy wants to criticize this round of consultations because there are also court challenges to it. Yeesh, aside from there being no pleasing certain persons/groups dead set against the pipeline, perhaps member kimmy should first wait on the actual court proceedings to commence/complete - yes?