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Don’t Want TMX Built?
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Be careful what you wish for…
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any directly affected landowners on the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) are ambivalent about
the project. Some will sign the first document
put in front of them if it includes a cheque, without considering the consequences. Sometimes they’ll sign even without the cheque. Others will ask a few questions, because deep in their gut they know this will have impacts on them. But they are intimidated by — and have no idea how to deal with —
the slick land agent representing a multibillion-dollar corporation that once had government backing and expropriation powers and now is the government, with even more power. Some landowners with more assertive personalities will succeed at getting a little extra compensation. They will be satisfied they outsmarted
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