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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Notley is such a god danmed idiot. "Polluter pay" is easy to do when one of the oil companies up north has a leak. It is impossible to do when the polluter has been dead and gone for 60 years. This is exactly the kind of short-sighted thinking that has led that area to become an undeveloped slum in the interim.
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True. Not the idiot part, because I think she's got brains in general but here she's wrong. In fact the legislation says basically: the province can try to make the polluter clean it, but then it can clean it and bill the polluter. And if the polluter is defunct, guess what? Province holds the bag.
Now the City may have liability as the landowner under the legislation as well. But of course, cities are technically just a provincial level of government. There's only one taxpayer.