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Originally Posted by redforever
This, a thousand times over.
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That genie is already out of the bottle and its not going to be put back in. We've got it on a provincial level with Quebec not giving consent nor BC multiple times. Every consent argument now comes with protest to force agreement.
This government had an opportunity on more then several occasions to enforce the constitution and chose to fritter their hands like a weak bird and sit on their hands.
Basically now we're in a situation where every single project is going to be paralyzed by the question of consent and those groups or individuals will stare at the government and basically say "We're not consenting, what are you going to do about it?"
Personally with transmountain when people were screaming for and the government was talking about declaring it in the national interest and the government decided not to do that, they gave in.
With this latest LNG Pipeline where everything was signed and done properly and sub groups within consenting groups said we don't consent we lost any notion of consultation is required but consent isn't.
Bill C-69 and Bill C-48 aren't even needed anymore to kill projects, one group with a camera and protesters and no stake in the game can say "We don't consent" and we tie ourselves in knots to placate them.
The more that I think about it, the more that I like New Brunswicks idea of a resource corridor from coast to coast that can transport oil, natural gas, hydro is a really smart idea and something that the government can strongly declare int he national interest and expropriate.
But its never going to happen.
If we can't twin a existing pipeline, and if we can't push through a project that was approved on all level, what does that mean in terms of new projects and new investment? It means that nobody with the money to do it is going to risk it.