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Originally Posted by Northendzone
yesterday i read a tweet where blacklock's reporter indicated that this lab was being built in the riding of a liberal MP - the minister of Innovation and Science or portfolio like that
would be interesting to get some insight into how many of these kinds of projects with government gifts are built in ridings of the ruling parties MP's over the last 20 years.
I'd assume the answer would not be surprising - but who knows
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Well if a Blacklock's reporter says it, it must be true. Never mind the fact that the facility was announced in
May of 2015, a time when the Liberals weren't in government and had only 7 seats in all of Quebec (all in the Montreal area). Or that the facility is located in the riding of Beauport—Limoilou which has been held by Bloc or Conservative MPs for the last decade and hasn't elected a Liberal in its history.
The 2020 funding was for an expansion to the under construction facility so it could produce COVID vaccines. The Strategic Innovation Fund (which is the program under which the facility expansion was funded) is normally a combination of loans and grants, and both of those tend to be conditional. So unless Innovation Canada significantly departed from their normal process, the grantee can't just not fulfill the project while keeping the money.