Canada's Quagmire of Permitting Large Projects...Yes, Even the Envirinmentally Friendly Ones

"..When it comes to climate, the federal Liberals spend too much time thinking up new taxes and too little time actually working toward change. They’re all too happy to reach into Canadians’ pockets in the name of reducing carbon emissions, but strangely hostile to projects that could genuinelzy transform the way we create and consume energy.

The logic is simple: if we want to cut carbon emissions, we need viable alternatives. Yet Canada is about to lose a promising tidal power venture — one that’s already received millions in government grants in addition to investing $30 million of its own funds — because the feds either can’t or won’t get their act together issuing permits..." 

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/in-trudeaus-canada-even-green-energy-projects-cant-get-permits

After Sll Thst Talk From Navdeep Bains, Where us Canada's Innovation? An " Investment" or " Subsidy" for Volkswagen

 "...Incredibly, neither the gatekeeper-slaying federal Tories (who at least used to position themselves as against corporate welfare while in opposition before abandoning any such pretense once in office) nor the federal NDP (whose former leader David Lewis coined the term “corporate welfare bums”) bothered to raise the Volkswagen deal in Question Period on Thursday after the scale of largesse had been leaked to the media. If even politicians like Pierre Poilievre and Jagmeet Singh — who in their respective ways never stop telling us how they’re fighting for the little guy — can’t muster the outrage to speak out against such a massive raid of the public treasury, who will?.."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/aaron-wudrick-13b-for-volkswagen-shows-trudeau-has-no-confidence-in-canadian-innovation

Liberals' Incentives For New Volkswagen Plant: Whaaaaaaat!?!? How much is that per worker?

https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/electric-vehicles/canada-matched-us-subsidies-to-win-volkswagen-battery-plant

Let's say 2,000 workers (aggressive for a town like St Thomas) = $216,667 per worker annually for 30 years. Basically an auto union of government employees. 

"...The minister said the plant will cost about $7 billion to build, will have a footprint equal to 350 football fields, and will create thousands of jobs in the region around St. Thomas, the southern Ontario city where it will be located, about two hours northeast of Detroit...."

Canada's Federal Strikes = Lower Growth and Higher Inflation

 Scotiabank Says Federal Strike Is Poised to Hit Canada’s Growth  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-19/scotiabank-says-federal-strike-is-poised-to-hit-canada-s-growth

Ethics and the NDPLiberals

 Martine Richard, who has worked in the commissioner’s office as a lawyer since 2013, took over the top job last month for a six-month stint.

Richard is the sister-in-law of Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who was found to have breached conflict-of-interest rules in 2018 for approving a lucrative fishing licence for a family member while he was fisheries minister.

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/liberal-cabinet-ministers-sister-in-law-resigns-as-federal-interim-ethics-commissioner

Our Ever " Not Knowing" Prime Minister

 Trudeau again "not knowing"

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/trudeau-admits-dozens-visits-jamaican-villa

"Trudeau also confirmed on Wednesday that he was not aware of the reportedly large donation the Green family made to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation in 2021, a scholarship named after Peter Green’s late wife, Mary-Jean Mitchell Green, who died of breast cancer in the 1990s.

“As I have said, I have had no engagement direct or indirect with the Trudeau foundation in close to 10 years. So that includes not knowing about what donations they are taking, what decisions they’re making or what my brother is doing on the foundation,” he said."

When you Look Up Convenient in the Dictionary

 https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ethics-commissioner-resignation-halts-investigations