Finance Minister Morneau (the MP for Bennington Heights) has pledged federal money to Kinder Morgan for losses it may incur as it tries to build the federally-approved pipeline to the Pacific. It’s an unknown sum of money. Critics of the Trudeau Liberals ask why this matter has not been referred to the Supreme Court. The answer is the political cost of that. Everyone is slathered in naked electoral expediency. The LPC fears losing seats in BC. BC Premier John Horgan has decided to jump as high as the splinter Green Party demands. He will go down to defeat if they’re unhappy with him. The federal NDP, led by that bulwark of principle, Jagmeet Singh, has chosen Horgan over NDP Premier Rachel Notely because there are more NDP votes in BC than Alberta. And maybe Notely will be taken out by Prairie Conservatives in Alberta at the next election. Love this country.
