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Prime Minister should expect a major battle over Northern Gateway pipeline
Eighty per cent of British Columbians are opposed to allowing oil tankers in coastal waters. If Prime Minister Stephen Harper gives a green light to the project he will unleash an enormous backlash.
POWELL RIVER, B.C.— What kind of year in politics is it going to be? Very likely another year (or at least 10 months) of gridlock at the federal level—no sign of any so-called game changer on the horizon. A spring election is looking less likely as the Conservatives try to make a deal with the NDP—swapping its support for the budget for increased support for seniors and hopefully a halt to scheduled corporate tax cuts. Harper seems resigned to remaining a minority government and doesn't want an election. Canadians are no more willing to give him a majority today than they were last year or in the last election. As soon as a Harper majority appears possible, a whole whack of voters change their minds and the Conservatives go back to their maximum maintainable level of 36 per cent to 38 per cent.
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Prime Minister should expect a major battle over Northern Gateway pipeline
Eighty per cent of British Columbians are opposed to allowing oil tankers in coastal waters. If Prime Minister Stephen Harper gives a green light to the project he will unleash an enormous backlash.
POWELL RIVER, B.C.— What kind of year in politics is it going to be? Very likely another year (or at least 10 months) of gridlock at the federal level—no sign of any so-called game changer on the horizon. A spring election is looking less likely as the Conservatives try to make a deal with the NDP—swapping its support for the budget for increased support for seniors and hopefully a halt to scheduled corporate tax cuts. Harper seems resigned to remaining a minority government and doesn't want an election. Canadians are no more willing to give him a majority today than they were last year or in the last election. As soon as a Harper majority appears possible, a whole whack of voters change their minds and the Conservatives go back to their maximum maintainable level of 36 per cent to 38 per cent.
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