Nearly three-quarters of Canadians support the construction of an oil pipeline to either the West or East Coast, a new poll indicates.
Seventy-three percent of Canadians say they are in favour of new oil pipelines and, while support is slightly lower in Quebec than in other provinces, the majority of residents polled there also conveyed their approval for such projects, a newly released poll by Environics Research has found.
Quebec has long been opposed to such infrastructure. Attitudes appear to be changing in the new climate of U.S. tariffs, however. Fifty-nine percent of Quebecers now say they support a pipeline to the West Coast, while 55 percent are in favour of a pipeline to the East Coast, the survey found….