Hostility to government support for oil and gas radiated from Elizabeth May of the Greens, NDP chief Jagmeet Singh and Bloc Quebec Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet in the French language debate on Thursday.
Blanchet, who virulently opposes any pipeline through Quebec, was almost as contemptuous of Trans Mountain.
Trudeau clearly knows his majority is most endangered in Quebec. Hence this remarkable statement on climate change: “It’s necessary to have a strong government, full of Quebecers, full of francophones, who are going to be able to continue the fight” against conservatives who, in his view, “wouldn’t do anything.”
No leader in my memory has ever promised a government full of Ontarians, or British Columbians, or Albertans — or, for that matter, full of English speakers. It’s extraordinary.
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