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Originally Posted by Slava
This is just ridiculous. Frankly he's spent more time in Calgary and Alberta in the first few months of office than we have seen from any PM for the last 20 years. They've pledged a fairly sizeable chunk of money for Alberta and like I mentioned earlier I'm quite sure it was their idea to increase the time for people for EI benefits in his last visit to the province a few weeks ago.
To be honest there isn't a lot that the federal government can do here. We saw this issue with Harper as well when it comes to the building of pipelines; in order to get approvals we have to first appease all of the stakeholders and that has less to do with the federal government and more to do with the overall process.
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Why is it ridiculous.
The 700 million that he sent had already been earmarked and approved by Harper for distribution. Trudeau released what was released.
the $250 million stabilization fund is going to do little to nothing, and its a zero effort for the Prime Ministers office.
EI changes, we won't see that for years, Trudeau has already said its something that is going to go through committees and study. It will be an election promise next time around, you just watch.
He took the review process for the pipelines and basically said, I'm going to open it up for a lot more consultation, and its going to take about a year longer.
Then when asked if the NEB approved Energy East would he support it, and we got pretty much a big fat no comment.
Oh and lets not forget the mandate letters that he put out that killed already approved pipelines west by shutting down tanker traffic.
Oh and he's still going to ram through a national carbon tax which will probably chase even more investment dollars out of this industry.
He came here for a couple of days, great, he said some things great. But if this is truly being viewed as an economic emergency he's done little to add any urgency to it.