A Rebel News commentary highlights the contradiction between Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi, who says his party has “long advocated” for a Western pipeline, and federal NDP leader Avi Lewis, who calls the same project “nation burning” and says Canada’s New Democrats “unequivocally oppose this pipeline project” — arguing it violates Indigenous consultation, threatens endangered species, accelerates climate change, and enriches oil company executives, while favouring investment in heat pumps and a government-directed renewable economy.
The piece leans on the NDP constitution’s framing of provincial parties as constituent sections of the national party to argue the two wings cannot be treated as unrelated, and catalogues past anti-pipeline activism by Alberta NDP figures (David Eggen, Shannon Phillips, Rachel Notley, and others) to cast Nenshi’s pro-pipeline positioning as an implausible reversal. Included as a record of hostile right-wing coverage of the federal/provincial NDP climate split.
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