I didn’t catch that in yesterday’s news.
I knew it’d get built one way or another but I hope to see Notley and Trudeau get booted for it and get replaced by some real progressive leaders.
Shame on both of them.
That's just delusional.
When Notley gets booted, you don't get a "real progressive", you get Jason Kenney.
Notley has brought in an Alberta carbon tax, a cap on oilsands emissions, and a plan to phase out coal and implement renewables. She did this with the idea that if Alberta took steps on CO2 and coal and a carbon tax, the federal government and the other provinces and the enviro-weenies would be more willing to cooperate on pipelines. Her opponents and critics said "that's a stupid idea, those people will never cooperate regardless how much CO2 you cut or how many windmills and solar panels you put up."
Unfortunately, Horgan and friends are proving that her opponents and critics were correct.
The first thing Kenney will do when he becomes premier next year is to tear up Notley's environmental efforts. He'll call them "an expensive failure that did nothing to get the pipelines built."
Rachel Notley has championed these environmental actions, as well as a socially progressive agenda that has met strong resistance in Alberta... but I guess she's not a "real progressive" because she understands that Alberta's primary export has to get to its customers.
-k