Liberals in Trouble! Carney trapped himself as CPC puts forward pipeline motion!
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Summary
Wyatt Claypool talks about the MOU between PM Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, and what it means for the future of the oil pipeline between Alberta and the West Coast of Canada. Also, a new motion being put forward by the Tories to force a vote on whether or not to support the deal.
Transcript
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Since they took office, Prime Minister Mark Carney's liberal government has been great at talking tough and making big promises.
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But when it comes to actual follow-through, so far they have been objectively terrible.
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And I don't think there is anything different with this memorandum of understanding between Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
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Now, Smith obviously wants a pipeline built. Well before she was Premier, when she was a radio show host, she was consistently wanting more pipelines built, whether it was to the West Coast or the East Coast.
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But Carney and many of his liberal MPs have been obviously anti-pipeline this entire time.
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They have openly said no to more pipeline development in Canada. Carney was on the record in a committee meeting with Pierre Polyev, then just an MP and not the leader, asking him why he's in favor of pipeline development in other countries, but not Canada.
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And Carney had this ridiculous rambling answer about why Canada shouldn't be building pipelines, but they should be building pipelines in Saudi Arabia and Qatar and elsewhere.
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Now, Carney is trying to cast himself as Mr. Pipeline, but he may have actually entrapped himself.
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The man has played himself because he has perfectly fed into the Conservatives' hands, and now they will be putting forward a motion vote to ask all the liberal MPs,
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will you vote on the record, yay or nay, for a pipeline going from Alberta to the West Coast with a suspension of the tanker ban so tankers can actually move the oil and gas products to Asia to be sold?
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Because so many liberal MPs, when Carney was signing to the MOU, basically were signaling in the media,
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yes, we have signed an MOU with Alberta, but don't worry, David Eby in British Columbia and all the First Nations can still block it.
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They would say it in a more diplomatic way, like, oh, of course, we'll still need their sign-off, and we still have to do consultations, and we'll want to work with the B.C. government.
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They're effectively trying to basically assure their green liberal base that no worries, we have found ways to make sure this thing will never happen.
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Carney will say yes, but the First Nations will say no, or Carney will say yes, but don't worry, David Eby will say no,
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and from what has been tweeted by some of David Eby's own MLAs in the last 24 hours, they are still on the side of no.
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But I want to break this down a little bit more in just a second here, with the motion being put forward by the Conservatives.
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But before I do that, I just actually want to plug a little interview I did with Kat Kanda on her YouTube channel.
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I will be linking in the description below that video, as well as pinning it in the top of the comments.
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And then I also want to pin the documentary that the party I work for put out recently.
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It's the One B.C. Party Caucus, put out the Making a Killing documentary about the Kamloops grave hoax,
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as well as the reconciliation industry takeover of British Columbia.
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That will also be linked below the Kat Kanda interview.
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And then also, like, share, subscribe, all that usual stuff.
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I also want to address this, because I know I'm going to get comments about it.
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But this is the clock that shows how many subscribers I have.
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But for some reason, oh, okay, well, I got that to come back.
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But for some reason, it's not displaying this number correctly.
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I assume when it gets to the next number, it will reset itself, and it won't look kind of so janky.
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But I know if I don't say that, people are going to want me to address it.
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It's like how I got a call on my phone yesterday, and people are hearing the buzzing of my phone,
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Well, anyways, but here is from Rob Shaw from Czech News in British Columbia.
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Mark Carney's government may be in an uncomfortable position next week after the Conservative Party announced
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they will be tabling a motion to support an oil pipeline from Alberta to deep water port on BC's coast,
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language from MOU, putting Liberal Party BC MPs in potential spot of voting against the government's own MOU.
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And that's probably what's going to happen, because we've basically heard from MPs like Tlaib Noor-Muhammad
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and Jonathan Wilkinson that, don't worry, I'm kind of restating what I've already said,
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but don't worry, guys, it's never going to happen,
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because Carney has put a veto in for everybody and their cat into this MOU.
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Now, I know there are some Albertans who have been criticizing Danielle Smith.
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She kind of has to play the role of being naive in the situation,
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because if she says, well, this is not worth the paper, it's written on, it's the Liberals,
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of course they're just going to lie, blah, blah, blah.
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The thing is, the media and the Liberals will say, see, that's why there's no pipeline.
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She doesn't believe in Tinkerbell, so Tinkerbell died.
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Right, so Daniel Smith is having to be deliberately naive in this whole situation,
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but again, it's actually been a way of entrapping Carney,
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because Carney is making it seem like the pipeline is very real,
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but now the Conservatives can put them on the spot and ask, well, how real is it?
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Let's have your own MPs say they fully endorse this plan, and they hope it actually gets done.
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And so the Conservatives are very giddy about this thing being put forward.
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I liked this post by Katie Merrifield, who is the communications director for Peter Paliyev's office,
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and she said, see you next Tuesday, Tlaib, being Tlaib Noor-Muhammad, have a great weekend,
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because he was really getting into it with her this last week, attacking her over some stupid, nonsensical points,
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and now he gets to be the one in an uncomfortable position, having to argue in favor or against a new pipeline.
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And so here is Peter Paliyev showing what the opposition motion is going to be.
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On Tuesday, the House of Commons will vote on a Conservative motion for a new oil pipeline to the Pacific coast,
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overriding the tanker ban to ship bitumen to Asia.
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And this is what the opposition motion will read.
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Opposition motion A, take note of the Memorandum of Understanding between Canada and Alberta of November 27, 2025,
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and B, supports the construction of one or more pipelines,
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enabling the export of at least 1 million barrels a day of low-emission Alberta bitumen
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from a strategic deep-water port on the British Columbia coast to reach Asian markets,
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including through an appropriate adjustment to the oil tanker memorandum act,
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while respecting the duty to consult Indigenous people.
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I honestly wouldn't have even included the last part of duty to consult,
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because it's kind of a misnomer that you're consulting Indigenous people.
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You're consulting left-wing controlled ban councils.
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Many of the people on Indigenous ban councils or First Nations ban councils
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are left-wing activists, like Grand Chief Stuart Phillip.
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You can consult, but at least they shouldn't be given a veto.
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So I understand why the Conservatives said consult, but not, you know, let them have a veto in all this.
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why are 5% of the population in British Columbia able to control the entire province?
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because the vast majority of First Nations people are perfectly fine with resource development.
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It's the activists who end up having high positions in their government
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because again, they're left-wing, greenie activists.
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But in response to what Pierre Polly have said here,
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and I think it's very much kind of indicating why the Liberals are going to be uncomfortable,
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Liberals are violating a 50-year oil tanker ban,
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one they long defended and just enshrined in law to satisfy Conservatives for a bitumen pipeline.
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It's clear only the NDP will protect the BC coast,
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defend Indigenous rights, and address the climate crisis.
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And this is why the Liberals are in a really tough spot,
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because they have trained a large portion of their base to hate pipelines
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and to think that basically the climate crisis makes any fossil fuel development pipeline
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or exportation of oil and gas is not just bad, it's evil.
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And so the NDP may end up eating the Liberals' lunch on this one,
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because even if the Liberals vote in favor of it,
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which will make them look better in front of what I'll call their blue Liberal base
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they'll end up looking bad to their orange Liberals
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that they just took on board in this last election.
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Because remember, in a normal federal election,
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the NDP usually get like 15% to 20% of the vote, maybe 14% to 20%.
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So most of their vote either stayed home or went to the Liberals.
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So the NDP have a very good path here to winning back a bunch of their support
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by showing that the Liberals are not left-wing enough.
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And they're already taking it from their left flank
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and saying that she will never vote for anything else the Liberals do now.
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So let's just take a look at this CTV News question period clip
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where now Elizabeth May, the Green Party leader
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and only Green MP, saying she regrets voting for the budget
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which is the fact that you cast that very integral vote
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to support the budget and keep the government in power.
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Does that mean that you have not ruled out supporting them
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who got to office largely with progressive voters thinking,
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I have so many members of the Green Party email
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and say we're ending our Green Party membership long enough
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to vote for Mark Carney in the Liberal leadership
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A lot of people believe that this was a Prime Minister
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So I may have voted for the budget because I thought he would.
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A lot of Canadians voted Liberal because they thought he would.
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So there's disillusioned voters out there, a lot of them.
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There's disillusioned Liberal MPs who are wondering
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who said he's very worried about lifting the tanker ban,
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and Patrick Wyler, West Vancouver Sunshine Coast,
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the flip-flop on the subsidies to enhance oil recovery.
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we thought was going to stand for certain things
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And for viewers, I'm not taking away from the fact
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we're dealing with Trump, we're dealing with national unity.
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no, I'm not against everything Liberals are doing.
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for the progressive voters that they've taken on board,
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And no doubt you will see a lot of the NDP leadership candidates
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running on the idea that they're going to oppose
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when he ended up resigning from the Liberals' cabinet.
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He's probably going to resign from office fully later.
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or at the very least their base in the pipeline,
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So even though the majority of voters in that riding
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the thing is a lot of those pro-pipeline voters
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because they're the more pure pro-pipeline party anyways.
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And again, the Liberals aren't really pro-pipeline.
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in order to make sure the pipeline never happens.
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saying, oh, the conservatives are just having fun.
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No, I actually sometimes agree with Thomas Mulcair
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I think he's a fairly shrewd political commentator
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But on this, the conservatives are not having fun.
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All right, let's talk about Green Party leader,
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of a lot of green toothpaste back into the tube
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There was one very easy win for Elizabeth May in there.
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All she had to do was ask for something concrete
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This actually might not be the clip I was looking for,
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because of just how bad Elizabeth May is now looking,
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But that one was still at least interesting to listen to.
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that Polyev is planning to force in the House this week.
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because it doesn't actually produce any results.
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whether they recognize and accept the agreement,
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But since they don't get to express themselves publicly,
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anything that's been talked about in caucus stays in caucus.
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between the wording of the memorandum of understanding
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to the tanker ban on the north coast of British Columbia.
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Because again, I think Canadians do need to see
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Because I would say Carney is the one having fun
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And now Polyev is making him actually put his money
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The whole point is that they are cutting through
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It just kind of basically muddles through the idea
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It doesn't actually say it's going to functionally
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Polyev's Conservatives are forcing these Liberal MPs
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They never thought that they were going to have to be this clear
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because they do not want the environmental groups
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and saying that there are conservative sellouts
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So again, Carney has effectively played himself
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Actually, I just want to bring up one more thing here.
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from the BC NDP reacting to this headline from the CBC.
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that was developed without First Nations input,
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So, yes, the NDP government in British Columbia
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but the guy who is the Grand Chief of all of them,
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and now the Conservatives are also forcing them,
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to talk about how this ends up going with the vote,
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because you are going to see a lot of nervous Liberals
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really bad reasons that they can still vote in favor of it,
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but not violating their environmental, like, principles,
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or abstaining, or the Liberals just finding a way
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I wonder if they're all just going to walk out on the vote
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Go check out the interview I did with Cat Canada
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I've only been back in the studio for, like, two days here,