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Most British Columbians felt uneasy about their tax dollars being spent on the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion even before the federal government announced this week that it would buy the project outright for $4.5 billion, according to a new poll.

Research Co. surveyed 1,255 adults in B.C. between May 25 to 28 and found that 76 per cent of respondents agreed with the statement “I am uncomfortable with the idea of the federal government using taxpayer money to subsidize a foreign company if the project does not go through.”

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The poll, conducted ahead of the federal government’s announcement on Tuesday, also found that 57 per cent of residents thought Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government made the wrong decision when they announced in May that they would use taxpayer money to indemnify Kinder Morgan backers for any financial loss incurred due to politics delaying the project.