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RSS FeedsChantal Hébert: The Alberta-B.C. pipeline fight will test Trudeau´s promises to Indigenous peoples
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

16 february 2018 01:14:10

 
Chantal Hébert: The Alberta-B.C. pipeline fight will test Trudeau´s promises to Indigenous peoples
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


KELOWNA—The outcome of the first electoral engagement to take place against the backdrop of the B.C./Alberta trade war was non-conclusive. That is not to say it was meaningless.On Wednesday the voters in the provincial riding of West Kelowna had the somewhat dubious honour to be the first to have the opportunity to use the ballot box to send a message to the politicians in Victoria and Edmonton who have been feuding over the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline. They took a bit of a pass.West Kelowna is located in B.C.’s wine country. That places it right in the line of fire of Alberta Premier Rachel Notley’s retaliatory salvo against the province’s New Democrat government over the possibility that the latter might cap the amount of bitumen oil that transits through B.C.In this region the competing soliloquies of the two governments potentially add up to more than just a war of angry words.The Liberals kept the seat formerly held by ex-premier Christy Clark with 57 per cent of the vote. That’s almost identical to her 59 per cent finish in last year’s general election. If Notley’s ban on Alberta purchasing B.C. wine is meant to swing new votes towards the more pipeline friendly political option, it has not happened yet.Kelowna West is not ground zero of the B.C. pipeline debate. Still, anecdotal evidence this week did suggest it is a top-of-mind issue for a significant number of voters.But on Wednesday that did not translate into the anti-pipeline vote coalescing behind one of the two parties that oppose the Kinder Morgan project. The New Democrat and Green party scores (23 per cent and 12.5 per cent) were in the same ballpark as those in 2017.In no small part the support of the Green party for Premier John Horgan’s minority government is contingent on the NDP’s keeping its promise to do all it can to block the Trans Mountain expansion.But with two parties in contention for the votes of Trans Mountain oppo ...


 
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