Too many people BC seem to admire Trump for his f-everyone else, screw your neighbors approach to diplomacy and a complete ignorance for facts or logic. Which is kind of ironic since most people in BC claim to despise the guy while they imitate him.
The core of this issue are the principles of confederation. BC joined the union and has benefit immensely and that means it has a moral and legal obligation to reciprocate. This means living with the risks that come with shipping goods from other provinces.
It is also ironic that all of oil/gas spills off the coast in the last few years have come from non-oil related shipping - something that accounts for >85% of the traffic in the port of Vancouver even when the pipeline expansion goes ahead.
This will get nasty before it ends. The federal government has a lot of power to force the BC government to comply. The question is whether it will feel compeled to use it.
Weird that you use my post for your post.
I support the TMP.
I also support BC wine, AB beef, site c dam, solar and wind projects, natural gas plants and electric vehicles.
If such support eventually turns the oil sands upside down, well, that is something for those people to think about.
As for the feds having lots of power to use. Ok, fine, explain what power they can use and how this will effect future relations, impact future elections, etc because the fed Liberals make these calculations just like the fed CPC and NDP.
But then, it should be no surprise that the NDP governments from two provinces are going about in the mutual destruction of each’s economy: that’s what the NDP do.