The "vote against you if you oppose extraction" theme was really highlighted for me by the CBC story on one Adem Campbell of Ft. Mac, linked from here:
Adem loved Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" in 2006, but by 2021, was ready to vote Smith for Premier, because he by then lived in Ft. Mac, loved being a teacher and baseball coach, loved the community.
The interview was some years after Ft. Mac burned down, had barely recovered population - and the birth rate that supplies his elementary school had been in decline for three years.
If I were Adem, I'd be looking for an exit while my property values hadn't dropped much. Even great believers in Al Gore will still vote Conservative, for the sake of their town.
The "vote against you if you oppose extraction" theme was really highlighted for me by the CBC story on one Adem Campbell of Ft. Mac, linked from here:
http://brander.ca/stackback#adem
Adem loved Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" in 2006, but by 2021, was ready to vote Smith for Premier, because he by then lived in Ft. Mac, loved being a teacher and baseball coach, loved the community.
The interview was some years after Ft. Mac burned down, had barely recovered population - and the birth rate that supplies his elementary school had been in decline for three years.
If I were Adem, I'd be looking for an exit while my property values hadn't dropped much. Even great believers in Al Gore will still vote Conservative, for the sake of their town.