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Originally Posted by Goriders
The numbers don’t work because of the hurdles they put in place.
It was a conscious effort by the current regime to neuter the energy industry by taking away the expansion of market access and infrastructure as well as scaring away foreign investment via project uncertainty. All of which they were successful in achieving. Not to the benefit of Canada. This will be reversed under the next government.
When you have ideologues running federal portfolios you have a 50% chance that they will sabotage their area of responsibility. What did everyone think would happen when an ex member of greenpeace was put in charge of decision making over energy projects. What a horrible decision that was.
I wonder how many billions of dollars our environment minister cost Canada in GDP over the last decade? Wonder if he could pay us back for it.
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Let's just rehash the same old arguments, this'll be fun.
If it wasn't those hurdles that killed Northern Gateway and Energy East then the courts would have done it. The 'hurdles' were put in place to prevent it being later killed in an inevitable court challenge. And the economics of Energy East were always flimsy at best.
Trudeau is certainly not perfect, but if the Liberals were undertaking a a 'conscious effort to neuter the energy industry by taking away the expansion of market access and infrastructure' why the #### did they buy and build TMX at great cost? (Both in terms of dollars and political capital because that definitely didn't play well in the East)
Surely they would have just let it die on the vine if that was their plan and it would have been beneficial politically for them to do so.