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Originally Posted by peter12
There is a growing understanding in most business and political circles that the federal government is not capable of utilizing Canada's full state capacity anymore. Whether that is from burn-out, disillusionment, growing institutional incompetence or a combination of all of them remains to be seen.
People have to stop acting like defending this government is some sort of patriotic endeavour. Our country is growing increasingly incapable of sorting out complex issues, particularly when they overlap with provincial jurisdiction.
There is a fundamental issue of state capacity in this country - from not being able to build any kind of major industrial project on a meaningful timeline to procuring equipment for the armed forces to providing chemotherapy to cancer patients.
This is something that people of all ideological stripes should consider a priority to fix.
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This, this, a hundred times this.
An example, from my recent engagement:
We are talking about the need for port infrastructure for shipping of critical energy products globally. Preferably for our region, this would be handled through Prince Rupert. This is frankly something that our country is promising to global partners, but right now we have absolutely no capacity to provide it outside of shipping it down to captive markets in the US. Everyone at the table knows this is something we need to fix. We have NRCAN, we have industry, we have regulators present. And all NRCAN will say is that Alberta needs to join regional round tables to further discuss the issue.
WTF- we are here to have a round table! The people that are needed, outside of Danielle Smith, who frankly is pointless to this discussion, are around the table. They instead default to political posturing because the truth is THEY HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA OR NO WILL to get any of these projects done. Even if we started the process today for a new LNG terminal, or a new Methanol export terminal, it would take approximately 4-5 years to begin construction based on current ECCC and other regulatory review timelines. The VOPAK facility, finally announced today, has been undergoing that review process since 2018. This ECCC site says start 2021- that's when they finally accepted the application. It took 3 years to process it to the acceptance point.
https://iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/evaluations/proj/81744
So, in short, we will NEVER meet our commitments to global partners about supplying secure and fairly sourced energy, because there's no way for us to get it to them. Building wind farms tied to electrolyzers in Newfoundland is ####ing assinine- not only do you lose a huge amount of efficiency by compressing it and putting it on the boat, but the boat is absolutely not carbon neutral, so you're defeating the purpose as soon as you set sail to another market. Further, and this is the big one, WIND EXISTS EVERYWHERE. So you can just build a bunch of windfarms and electrolyzers at the point of delivery if that's what you desire. The investment case is stupid and non-existant. Again, suppport for this project is entirely political and not well thought out: How can we get more jobs for our energy minister's riding??!? Boom, thanks Seamus.