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Old Posted Apr 12, 2016, 12:09 AM
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Originally Posted by CanSpice View Post
The BC NDP are kind of in the same boat. John Horgan is against the LEAP Manifesto, yet now the Federal NDP has tied their boat to it. And since there's really no "provincial" or "federal" NDP -- they're all one party -- that means that the BC NDP now backs the LEAP Manifesto. Keith Baldrey's column is a good read on how the BC Liberals are going to use this to hit the BC NDP. Like this story says, all things considered, this wasn't a good day for Horgan.
Well the BC NDP is infested with hard-core enviro types already who seem to have already hijacked the party and moving in the Leap Manifesto direction. Mike Smyth's column from just yesterday continues ion that theme:

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LNG and Site C: The B.C. NDP's labour problem

MIKE SMYTH

They are the two biggest megaprojects in B.C. — one in the public sector and one in the private sector.

B.C. Hydro’s Site C dam, under construction on the Peace River near Fort St. John, will generate low-emission power for a century. Its current price tag is $8.8 billion, the largest public-sector infrastructure investment in B.C. history.

The Pacific Northwest LNG project, proposed near Prince Rupert, is pegged at $36 billion including a marine-export terminal, hundreds of kilometres of pipelines and hundreds of natural-gas wells.

Awaiting federal approval, the liquefied-natural-gas megaproject would be the biggest private-sector investment in B.C. history.

These are the projects Premier Christy Clark’s governing Liberals brag and boast about on a daily basis.

To the Liberals’ great delight, the opposition NDP opposes both of them. And Clark mercilessly taunts NDP leader John Horgan about it every chance she gets.

“He’s saying No to growing the economy. He opposes economic development all across British Columbia. That member does not stand up for Yes, does not stand up for jobs and does not stand up for working people.”

An even thornier problem for Horgan is that the province’s big construction unions — traditional allies of the NDP — support the Site C dam and the Pacific Northwest LNG project.

But the NDP’s union allies only hear the “No.”

“It’s not a good thing for the NDP to be saying those kind of things,” said Brian Zdrilic, business manager of the Millwrights Union of B.C. “It’s very disheartening.”

Zdrilic and other top officials from B.C.’s main construction unions were Clark’s guests at the legislature last week, where the government announced the contract to supply the Site C dam’s massive generators and turbines.

Hundreds of millwrights, electricians, plumbers, boilermakers, carpenters and other skilled workers — all of them unionized — are getting Site C jobs.

Union jobs mean union support for the project — and more bitterness toward the NDP.

That has forced many construction-union leaders to side with the Liberals, while wondering if Horgan’s NDP has been taken over by an anti-development environmental wing of the party.
http://vancouversun.com/news/politic...labour-problem
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