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Nanaimo by-election is wake up call to Federal NDP. Apology owed to @paulmanly for shameful treatment in 2015. And we must as party take clear stand opposing fracking and all new oil and gas infrastructure incl LNG, and Site C, champion UNDRIP + Pact for Green New Deal. #cdnpoli — Svend Robinson (@Svend4MP) May 8, 2019

Asked about LNG Canada, Singh told reporters that any resource development project must be in line with Canada’s climate-change goals, respect Indigenous rights and create jobs. “At this point, there’s some concerns that I’ve raised, and (the project) has not satisfied all those criteria,” he said.

Singh had previously signalled his changing stance on LNG. “I want to build a future in which we are not fracking and burning,” he said during an April 29 speech in the House of Commons during the Nanaimo—Ladysmith byeelection campaign. But his comments were a far cry from those he made before his own byelection win in Burnaby South in February. In an interview with CTV’s Evan Solomon in January, Singh said he supported the LNG project.

“The vast majority of Indigenous elected bands and chiefs have all shown support and the consultation process was done in a very meaningful way,” he said.

While campaigning in Burnaby in February, Singh maintained his support for the project, citing the “exhaustive and pretty thorough consultation around Indigenous communities, First Nations communities and elected bands and chiefs.”

On Monday, Singh would not give a clear answer about his new position on the export facility near Kitimat or the LNG pipeline, but stated definitively that the federal NDP opposes fracking. LNG Canada will export natural gas extracted by fracking.

“I do not support fracking. I do not believe that is the future for Canada,” he said. “I’ll also go beyond that saying I don’t believe any energy source that’s carbon-based is the future for Canada.”