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Originally Posted by Slava
The contentious part is that First Nations and environmentalists are unhappy with it. This could lead to legal challenges and other such issues because those groups want consultation, which no doubt means a veto for some of those parties.
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That’s kind of the whole point of the bill. Building anything in this country provokes opposition from some stakeholder or other. Community residents, environmental organizations, indigenous groups. Giving each of those parties a say may seem reasonable in isolation. But taken together they make it difficult, costly, and sometimes impossible to get anything build.
Carney has the wind in his sails and political license to get things done. If he doesn’t break the logjam now, if the cost and time to build everything from homes to pipelines to hospitals to rail-lines keep going nowhere but up, Canadians are not going to be happy.