Federal Liberals alienating both sides in Kinder Morgan fight

The Liberals hurt themselves with pipeline opponents when they approved the TransMountain expansion, but a majority of Canadians supported the initial decision. The Liberals’ real problem has come from the subsequent handling of the issue, writes pollster Greg Lyle.

There is a political price to be paid for this disapproval. One third (33%) of Canadians say they are less likely to vote Liberal because of the way they have handled the issue. Just 12% say more likely. The damage is almost equally strong among strong general supporters of oil and gas projects (53% less likely) and strong general opponents of those projects (58% less likely to vote Liberal).The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GREG LYLE

May 21, 2018

VANCOUVER—It’s not the break-in, it’s the cover up. The reference is to Watergate. The break-in at the Watergate office complex in the early 1970s was a problem for the Republican campaign, but it was the effort of the Republican leadership up to and including the president that resulted in th...

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