THE MUD PUDDLE DEPTH OF SINGH'S CONVICTIONS

In an about-face coming a week after his party lost a Vancouver Island seat to the Green Party, federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he doesn’t support fracking and has concerns about a major liquefied natural gas project in British Columbia.

Singh, who has previously voiced support for LNG Canada’s $40-billion natural gas export facility in northern B.C. and the Coastal GasLink pipeline that would feed it, told reporters in Ottawa on Monday that “the future of Canada does not include fracking.” His comments come just days after NDP candidate Svend Robinson tweeted that his party’s loss of last week’s byelection in Nanaimo—Ladysmith is a “wake up call,” and demanded a stronger stance from the federal leader “opposing fracking and all new oil and gas infrastructure.”