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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Maybe I'm remembering this much differently than you, but I thought the issue was the Harper government failed to consult properly. So the delays were due to the Trudeau government doing proper consultation as required by the courts, and it would have led to more court challenges if they had intervened to "speed up the process" which is why it was delayed in the first place.
Anyone care to chime in on this?
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Exactly. My wife works at the Canada Energy Regulator (Formerly the National Energy Board) and they all knew at the time that Harper trying to ram them through was going to wind up in court challenges and delays.
Those court challenges came, the pipeline companies/NEB lost, and Trudeau increased regulations to increase the legal certainty that if the CER/NEB passed something that it would actually get through.
I am not arguing that Trudeau or the overhaul of the regulations is perfect, but there's more to the story about why we can't build pipelines/LNG export/etc. That certainty in the regulatory environment that ThePrince is looking for is exactly what the Libs were aiming for by increasing the bar.