As we head into the final few days of the election campaign, we’re starting to hear some of the party leaders using the ‘C’ word: coalition.

With the Conservatives and Liberals in a dead heat, it’s looking more like one of them will form a minority government.

While on the NL Morning News, Tory incumbent MP Cathy McLeod didn’t mince words when it comes to two other parties forming a coalition. “I would be very, very concerned about a Liberal – NDP coalition and what that would mean both to our country and to the continued development of our natural resources and I look at the Trans Mountain pipeline as a example.”

“The NDP are adamantly against it and of course the Liberals have bought the pipeline so what will it mean for the future?”

McLeod said she has “huge concerns both in terms of spending and the development of our natural resources.”

“We’re not a place yet where we can turn off the taps in terms of our oil industry, as much as many people would like it, it’s not there and we need to be self sufficient, absolutely.”