The Canada-Alberta Memorandum of Understanding is finally out. I’m certain that it was created with the very best of intentions, but I had serious doubts that anything here will have any impact on the economic and structural problems Canada faces. Well, at least not in most of our lifetimes.
That economic development has to go through the process of political blackmail and shakedown to theoretically circumvent a regulatory environment that chases away investment, confirms that Nutrien made the right choice in going through Washington State for an export facility.
Cynical optimist that I am, I see the feds pitting the various first nations against each other by dangling monetary incentives in front of the willing host/ co- owner. Money talks.
Interesting possibility. Although that does assume the prime minister is genuinely committed to the process and not just doing all this to make it look like he's doing something.
I'm picturing a hyperventilating David Eby laying down in the path of a bulldozer, or trying to sever BC from AB with a big handsaw, a la Bugs Bunny and Florida.
But yeah, this won't happen in my lifetime. Canada will continue it's slow motion implosion.
That economic development has to go through the process of political blackmail and shakedown to theoretically circumvent a regulatory environment that chases away investment, confirms that Nutrien made the right choice in going through Washington State for an export facility.
Cynical optimist that I am, I see the feds pitting the various first nations against each other by dangling monetary incentives in front of the willing host/ co- owner. Money talks.
Interesting possibility. Although that does assume the prime minister is genuinely committed to the process and not just doing all this to make it look like he's doing something.
I'm picturing a hyperventilating David Eby laying down in the path of a bulldozer, or trying to sever BC from AB with a big handsaw, a la Bugs Bunny and Florida.
But yeah, this won't happen in my lifetime. Canada will continue it's slow motion implosion.
Yeah. And I'm not sure how young someone have to be a bit more confident about what they'll see in their lifetimes.