David Eby, not a pipeline, is the true threat to Canada's economy

David Eby is angry, but he’d also like you all to know he’s polite. In response to the Alberta government’s plan to draw up a proposal for a new oil pipeline for the Major Projects Office, Eby characterized the plan as not just a threat to “our pristine coast” but also “a direct economic threat to the kind of economy we’re trying to build in the country here.” What economy that might be was left unspecified before Eby continued by insisting that his past vagueness and non-committal nature, in which he said he would “cross that bridge” (on pipelines) when B.C. and Alberta came to it, was merely him being “polite,” — politeness apparently something which is incompatible with clarity, as well as totally devoid of a basic understanding of what makes British Columbia and Canada’s econom