But change in the form of austerity, tax cuts and massive deregulation don’t help governments work better to build and create the things we need to resolve those crises (it won’t). It’s just a poorly disguised neoliberal agenda.
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Once again, Ă la Friedman, corporate lobbyists have successfully seized a crisis to push for the things they want.
jun 10, 2025, 5:32 pm • 13 1 • view
In this case, emergency powers to circumvent Indigenous rights and sovereignty as well as environmental regulations, all of this to build infrastructure that belongs to another era and won’t be viable without a LOT of taxpayer support.
jun 10, 2025, 5:32 pm • 4 0 • view
That, at the core, is what Bill C-5 proposes, and what those rumours about the cap on oil and gas pollution regs being scrapped tell us.
jun 10, 2025, 5:33 pm • 2 0 • view
Perhaps mistakenly, the expectation for Carney– who knows a thing or two about the financial risks of overexposure to fossil fuels– was that he would not fall for the « a pipeline is the response to every single crisis Canada has ever seen » refrain.
jun 10, 2025, 5:33 pm • 4 0 • view
That he would not double down on the wild and costly fantasy that uber expensive technologies that have yet to demonstrate any effectiveness at scale will make oil and gas « decarbonized » — while truly carbon-free Canadian energy powered by the sun and wind alr exists and is ready to be harnessed.
jun 10, 2025, 5:33 pm • 6 0 • view
And that at a macroeconomy level, he would understand the cost of continuing to entrench the Canadian economy in low-added value resource extraction. And not only because global demand for oil and gas is not growing…
jun 10, 2025, 5:34 pm • 2 0 • view
…but also bc while we’re spending our limited political bandwidth and resources on dangerous pipelines to nowhere, we’re not discussing and investing in high-tech, high value, good jobs sectors where we could build a made-in-Canada edge. Where we could attract investments & talent leaving the US.
jun 10, 2025, 5:34 pm • 4 0 • view
Just a couple ideas: green steel, geothermal, offshore wind, weather-resilient housing efficiency, a fully Canadian-manufactured affordable EV sedan, professional services like education…
jun 10, 2025, 5:34 pm • 10 0 • view
We’re also not inviting focus, both at the institutional and discursive level. The key to achieving objectives is not rocket science, it’s prioritization– that is true for any organization. It is especially true for an organization with the size and complexity of Canada’s federal government.
jun 10, 2025, 5:35 pm • 2 0 • view
That’s why saying we’ll become a « clean and conventional energy superpower » is not only misaligned with climate science. It’s lazy, ineffective and inefficient.
jun 10, 2025, 5:35 pm • 4 1 • view