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[Acitta]

It is not that the federal government is in love with it, it is that a large portion of Albertans are in love with it and any political party that wants to get votes in that province better take an interest in their interests. Resource extraction has provided a lot of high paying jobs in Canada and the west in particular which is why the conflict between the environment and the economy continues to be a difficult problem for governments.

Uhh...yeah, that's my point...Trudeau won't ever get votes in Alberta, which is why it makes no sense that he's pushing so hard on pipelines. I mean, politically, it appears to be idiotic, he's pandering to people who hate him...and I don't mean, disagree with him, I mean HAAATE him ... never in a million years would vote for him.

And he is doing so to the detriment of his base. The rest of Canada the pipeline is fairly unpopular, but even if it was neutral, that's money that isn't spent on things that ARE popular in the rest of Canada.

Now I'm not suggesting that a good politician shouldn't implement unpopular policies, or seek to represent those who didn't vote for them, but they should do so by implementing good policy, not by pandering with bad policy.  It's utterly bizarre to me.

Ya, but the Liberals are always trying to please everybody and end up pleasing nobody.