Daniel Béland

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Triggering [a referendum on independence] while Trump remains in the White House would have been particularly risky,
It’s technically feasible but it would be a massive undertaking. We are only at a very early stage of the project and we don’t have the final route or cost estimates yet,... It’s not even sure the Hardisty-Sarnia pipeline will ever be built so the idea it could at some point reach the Atlantic sounds quite speculative at this stage to say the least.”
Many members of the base like him but, as far as the broader Canadian electorate is concerned, he’s much less popular than Mark Carney, who recently shined on the world stage at Davos and has recentred the Liberal Party of Canada ideologically in ways that even some moderate conservative voters like,
The presence of Donald Trump in the White House should give pause to those who think a provincial independence referendum is a good idea in the current context,
He is the least popular premier in the country right now,

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