The federal government will buy the Trans Mountain pipeline and related infrastructure for $4.5 billion. The Finance Minister Bill Morneau said in making this announcement that the pipeline needs to be built, and “it will be built.” The unknowns of such ownership and costs related to the actual construction of the line seem open to debate. Morneau stressed the number of jobs that will be saved by this decision, the need to get Alberta oil to markets and the example set in establishing that Canada is not a feckless backwater (our words) that can’t build a pipeline.
‘LIVING IN THE PAST?
Jagmeet Singh, the NDP leader, suggested Canada was living in the past by worrying about such things. Rachel Notley, fellow NDPer and Premier of Alberta says Singh is “absolutely, fundamentally, incontrovertibly” wrong.
CAN DIVERSITY LOVE WITHSTAND A GREEN WORLD
Hard-headed people may think a green universe is nice but they worry more about its impact on Canada’s fragile multi-racial society. Some think the potential is high for too many of us to be at each others throats if our relative wealth were to subside. It is frequently said there would be no CPR if it had to be built in today’s world.
