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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
To be fair, "social license" is basically political will and public support - and in this case, to build pipelines. This was attempted to be built by the NDP with a provincial carbon tax, in conjunction with a federal carbon tax scheme that was to be implemented anyways to show that Alberta was playing ball with Canada. It didn't work out.
But if you don't have "social license" - that will and support -then it's an uphill battle to get anything done.
Perfect example - the people of the lower Mainland who oppose TMX didn't give the pipeline the "social license" to be built, and ergo, getting the actual project to go ahead.
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They prevented Alberta from increasing our Revenue and ergo they should reduce our taxes.
The 'Social License' accomplished nothing and is now useless, so scrap it and everything that led up to it.
The fact that
Social License people whining stymied a privately financed, Federally approved and licensed infrastructure project that was deemed in the National Interest shows how broken the system is and has cost our Government $4.5B and Trudeau whatever semblance of authority anyone thought he may have had.
At least Trudeau the Elder would have told the whiners to STFU and done what he was going to do anyways.