Trans Mountain pipeline support to cost Liberals in 2019, but unclear how much, say pollsters

‘People don’t appreciate being misled and deliberately lied to, and that’s what’s happened here in the case of the Trudeau government vis-a-vis the Trans Mountain pipeline project,’ says Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs.

Protesters, pictured Dec. 5, 2016, on Parliament Hill opposing the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

February 26, 2018

The federal Liberal government will pay a political price over its support for the $7.4-billion Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion among First Nations and B.C. voters in the next election, say pollsters, but how high a cost remains to be seen. “There will be a political price to...

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