FIRST READING: Poilievre says he would build pipeline against First Nations objections |
Carney's pipeline plans have notably omitted what he'll do in case literally everyone doesn't agree
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In a year-end CBC interview, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre confirmed that his strategy to build an oil pipeline differs from the prime minister’s in that he would eventually steamroll opponents who stood in its way.
“Of course I would consult … but we are going to build a pipeline when I am prime minister,” Poilievre told interviewer Rosemary Barton on Dec. 14.
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It’s been three weeks since Prime Minister Mark Carney signed a Nov. 27 memorandum of understanding with the Alberta government to build a bitumen pipeline along “a route that increases export access to Asian markets as a........