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After that came to light last Friday, Munro deleted the post.

“I took it down. I didn’t want a bunch more attention on me, but I guess it can’t be helped.

“The post was about the Vision Vancouver platform voters responded to. The people around the business side of Kinder Morgan know I don’t oppose the program and that pipeline personally.”

She was a volunteer working for Robertson, she says.

“We had a political position as a party. I didn’t define that position but it was my duty to get our guy elected, which we did.”

The Vancouver mayor remains a bitter opponent of the Kinder Morgan bitumen proposal.

But Munro says it’s “100 per cent true” that she wants to see the project go ahead.

She notes that as a lobbyist with Earnscliffe Strategy Group, she regularly worked with B.C. oil and gas companies to get projects built.

If you have trouble reconciling the contradictions, you are most likely a regular human unconnected with the murky, interlinked worlds of lobbying, campaigning and government advocacy.

Alberta lobbying firms long linked to the PCs, and still fiercely conservative at heart, now employ New Democrats to get a foot back in the door, and they’re damn happy to do it.

It’s a short step from that to Notley employing a B.C. New Democrat like Munro (one who used to refer to the “tar sands” on Twitter) to help big oil and gas, and work with the B.C. government.

Munro defines herself as “a labour-side New Democrat, a jobs-first New Democrat.” She has no fundamental objection to pipelines, she says, and certainly not to Kinder Morgan.