From Premier Notley about the BC NDP.
Jagmeet Singh made a campaign-style swing through Vancouver, where he reiterated that he is against both the expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain line to the Pacific Coast and TransCanada’s recently shelved Energy East project.
Speaking to reporters in Calgary, Notley — whose Alberta NDP government has backed both pipelines — noted Trans Mountain has already been approved by the federal government and suggested she wouldn’t lose much sleep over Singh’s position.
Course, she can’t openly criticize her leader, can she?
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“lance asks… she can’t openly criticize her
leader, can she?”
not if she doesn’t wanna be dealt the race card…
“Singh himself criticized Milewski, saying…
the ‘premise’ surrounding it was racist.”
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I suspect that he will play the race card at every opportunity he can.
Furthermore, …”whose Alberta NDP government has backed both pipelines” is smoke and mirrors as we all know that Notley and her government were and are actually opposed to resource energy extraction.
Singh wins the approved victim status social ranking over a mentally ill white b*tch by default.
Nutley should just STFU and quietly enjoy her white privilege until the next election.
It makes no difference if the Trans Mountain has already been approved by the federal government, it won’t be built. Green/lefties will throw up every roadblock they can. It will be delay, delay, delay by whatever means possible until it dies.
NDP in BC, NDP in AB, then along came Jagmeet.
Won’t be long before we see rail tanker cars tumbling into the Fraser…..
Dippers can’t maintain party discipline within a caucus let alone across federal provincial boundaries. The left will always eat its own. It’s part of their charm.
He’s just a Sikh version of Trudeau.
A ‘commie in Sikh’s clothing’ which seems odd to me. We had a hard working neighbor who was a Sikh and he had zero time for socialists or the NDP.
I agree. They will not rest until we are all living in caves and eating grass.
To be fair, we do live in a federation and provincial political parties are distinct entities from federal ones. What links a federal party with its provincial counterpart is usually a general consensus on commonly-held political principles (and even this can often be pretty thin gruel in the world of federal-provincial relationships).
Singh is the leader of the federal NDP, not the Alberta NDP; whether a provincial NDP party chooses to follow his lead or not depends entirely on what that party views as in its best interests provincially.
The NDP are those dour-faced socialists wholly beholden to white-collar labour (health care, government, education) for support and within their ranks you will find greens deeper into the theology than the Green Party. Blue collar labour maintains a love-hate relationship as the more green and white-collar reality-detached they drift, the less likely they hold their support as their policies tend to conflict with private sector blue-collar prosperity. In Canada, federally, there are actually two such Parties, the NDP and Liberals both competing for the leftist and more importantly the mindless middle and ethnic vote. Conservatives being the happy-faced socialists but more business friendly now only attain power when a healthy split occurs between the other two. Strong federal NDP support, thanks to Quebec and only in passing, resulted in the leftist nightmare of Harper’s government (and his “radical” agenda of slowing the growth of the federal leviathan now all but reversed under the Spawn) so don’t count on this new leader to do well in the next election despite his potential ethnic appeal.
To be fair, we don’t know that Jagmeet WAS Notley’s choice for Fed. Leader. I’d bet he wasn’t.
Probably not going to find out now. I guess it’ll be telling if he’s asked to campaign for Notley in the next Prov. election(?)…
A ‘commie in Sikh’s clothing’ which seems odd to me
All major parties have Sikh candidates because the Sikh community understands the power of politics.