Notley won’t weigh in on B.C. election after meeting anti-pipeline NDP leader
VANCOUVER — For Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, pipeline politics begin and end at home.
Her support of Kinder Morgan Canada’s $6.8-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has put her at odds with British Columbia’s Opposition NDP Leader John Horgan, and on Tuesday she declined to endorse a candidate in the province’s upcoming election.
“I’m not going to engage in political punditry in the province of B.C. The provincial election is the forum of British Columbians,” she said in an interview with The Canadian Press on Tuesday.
“I am just committed to working with whatever government is in place to encourage them to move this project forward, to the extent that it’s within their jurisdiction to do so.”