Construction of a pipeline to bring oil from Alberta to Saint John getting the thumbs up from Federal NDP leader Thomas Mulcair who made a stop in the city over the weekend to speak to the provincial party's convention.
Mulcair says right now people in this part of the country are paying more than they should for oil and we're losing out on tens of thousands of jobs.
On the other hand,Mulcair has come out against hydraulic fracturing which comes with shale gas exploration.