A politician’s worst nightmare is to be thought of as yesterday’s breakfast by voters. When prime minister, Mark Carney, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on energy development with the premier of Alberta two weeks ago, federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was made to look as relevant to the big issue of the day as the leader of the NDP.

It was, then, an adept parliamentary manoeuvre by Poilievre to wrestle back the initiative with an opposition day motion on Tuesday that forced the Liberals onto the back foot on their own initiative.

The motion used the language of the Canada-Alberta MOU to support the construction of one or more pipelines to reach a deep-water port in British Columbia to supply Asian markets — a development that, in the words of the motion, may req

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