This seems short sighted for the NDP. They’re unlikely to win the next election (especially at the rate they’re going). When the Conservatives take over, the NDP will really wish they had more say in which infrastructure projects get built.
Politically, the Conservatives and Greens are in a stronger and more consistent spot having voted down the amendment. The bill is worse for it but if you go to 11 on it (justifiably or not) then you don't really want to be seen as complicit in any way.
Like if the federal government introduced the "send dissidents to the gulags act", we'd hope the opposition were unanimous in opposing it, even if the government then proposed an amendment that "we have to put in writing who goes first" OIC.
This seems short sighted for the NDP. They’re unlikely to win the next election (especially at the rate they’re going). When the Conservatives take over, the NDP will really wish they had more say in which infrastructure projects get built.
Politically, the Conservatives and Greens are in a stronger and more consistent spot having voted down the amendment. The bill is worse for it but if you go to 11 on it (justifiably or not) then you don't really want to be seen as complicit in any way.
Like if the federal government introduced the "send dissidents to the gulags act", we'd hope the opposition were unanimous in opposing it, even if the government then proposed an amendment that "we have to put in writing who goes first" OIC.