NDP leader Jagmeet Singh sides with B.C. over Alberta in Trans Mountain dispute

[mentalfloss]

This could get interesting.


NDP leader Jagmeet Singh sides with B.C. over Alberta in Trans Mountain dispute

Jagmeet Singh planted the federal NDP flag firmly on British Columbia’s side of the Trans Mountain dispute Wednesday after months of trying to stay neutral in the bitter feud between his Alberta and B.C. counterparts over energy and environmental policy.

In fact Singh said he hasn’t even had a conversation with Alberta Premier Rachel Notley in months – not since Notley called him and his position on the pipeline “irrelevant” last fall, nor since.

Notley’s description of him last week as “absolutely, fundamentally, incontrovertibly wrong.”

“We’ve not have a chance to speak yet,” Singh told a news conference after his weekly caucus meeting. Until recently, Singh had called for a more thorough environmental review process on the proposal to twin an existing pipeline that runs between Edmonton and Burnaby, B.C. He now says he is 100 per cent opposed, since Ottawa wants to put money on the table to cover any cost overruns caused by political interference – largely from a court challenge by the NDP government in B.C.

“This was a very difficult decision for me,” Singh said. “It wasn’t something I took lightly but leaders have to make tough decisions.”

https://globalnews.ca/news/4227693/jagmeet-singh-trans-mountain-bc/amp/

 

[Dixie Cup]

It's truly unfortunate that a supposed leader of a national party doesn't do his due diligence prior to making such a "hard" decision. If he really looked at the facts, he'd find that the Trans Mtn pipeline will be the safest, most economical and environmentally safe as any pipeline in the world and that the federal government agency did exhaustive work to ensure that it met all conditions, in addition to the extra (what was it, 157 additional conditions) that had to be met. Trans Mountain did exactly what they were asked to and for what? A small, vocal minority whose ideology makes absolutely no sense.


I am so proud to know he had to make this "hard" decision on an ideological basis rather than on facts. It's disgusting!


JMHO

 

[petros]

NDP is losing the Unions.

 

[pgs]

It's truly unfortunate that a supposed leader of a national party doesn't do his due diligence prior to making such a "hard" decision. If he really looked at the facts, he'd find that the Trans Mtn pipeline will be the safest, most economical and environmentally safe as any pipeline in the world and that the federal government agency did exhaustive work to ensure that it met all conditions, in addition to the extra (what was it, 157 additional conditions) that had to be met. Trans Mountain did exactly what they were asked to and for what? A small, vocal minority whose ideology makes absolutely no sense.


I am so proud to know he had to make this "hard" decision on an ideological basis rather than on facts. It's disgusting!


JMHO

Yes and he is siding with the three lone Green MLA’s that are holding Horgan NDP hostage . If it wasn’t so sad it would be funny .

 

[DaSleeper]

Yes and he is siding with the three lone Green MLA’s that are holding Horgan NDP hostage . If it wasn’t so sad it would be funny .

According to Mentalfloss the NDP can do no wrong.

 

[petros]

He is a hardcore Dipper with a Tommy Douglas shrine in the basement.

 

[Hoid]

The pipeline cannot proceed until it can be proven that a clean up is even possible.

It is not.

also characterizing this abortion as a "twinning" is intentionally misleading.

 

[Twin_Moose]

Notely is right and Singh is irrelevant, her transition in platform in the last couple of years is indicating to me that she is really listening to her advisor Roy Rommanow who is really central for a dipper

 

[petros]

The pipeline cannot proceed until it can be proven that a clean up is even possible.

It is not.

also characterizing this abortion as a "twinning" is intentionally misleading.

Everything is in place like the buses to Machu Picchu.