- - - Quotes (with emphasis on the ENBRIDGE Pipeline dossier for the Official Opposition) : Mulcair shuffles NDP shadow Cabinet, Julian new House leader, Cullen finance critic By TIM NAUMETZ | The Hill Times Published: Thursday, 03/20/2014 10:20 pm EDT (T)he effect of shifting Ms. Nash (Parkdale-High Park, Ont.) to the lower-profile industry critic post eventually led to an MP from southern Ontario and the partys former industry critic, NDP MP Chris Charlton (Hamilton Mountain, Ont.), taking on energy and natural resources in the midst of a battle in British Columbia between the NDP and the Conservatives over a multi-billion-dollar pipeline project Enbridge Corp. wants to construct from Alberta to the West Coast to ship diluted oilsands bitumen from the equally-controversial oilsands across the Pacific for refining in China. . . . Mr. Cullen told The Hill Times in an interview Thursday he was “honoured” to take the finance position as the NDP attempts to establish its fiscal and economic credentials in the lead-up to the 2015 federal election, and said he also retains a share of responsibility to combat the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline as a “constituency” issue, since the pipeline route is planned to run through the middle of his sprawling electoral district. . . . Mr. Cullen disputed a suggestion that Mr. Oliver was successful doing his job promoting the Northern Gateway and other mega-energy projects at Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s (Calgary Southwest, Alta.) request, and some observers believed he was assigned to the finance portfolio to signal continuance of Conservative fiscal policies to money markets following Mr. Flaherty’s (Whitby-Ajax, Ont.) departure. “That’s my point, why this is a curious promotion [Mr. Oliver to finance] is that, as somebody out here, the target audience, he’s done more damage than good, in terms of getting that pipeline built, absolutely, the whole radicals, and enemies of the state, just the constant berating of opponents,” Mr. Cullen said. . . . : End quotes (full text in the first comment)
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