A pair of first-term NDP premiers, B.C.’s John Horgan and Alberta’s Rachel Notley, find themselves locked in a battle neither can afford to lose.
Horgan has promised that his government — a fractious power-sharing arrangement with the Green party — will do everything in its power to stop the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, while he massively remodels the province’s finances and seeks to trigger a risky price correction in an overheated housing market.
Notley can scarcely afford to see Alberta’s landlocked oil resources cut off from international markets as she, too, has pursued an ambitious social agenda, including a higher minimum wage, subsidized child care and a carbon tax. She badly needs a win for the industry that still pays the bills in Alberta.
So how did these scrappy heroes to the working class end up at loggerheads?
Randy Shore – Vancouver Sun – March 3, 2018.
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