I’m under no illusions that this will change any minds, or even that people will actually watch the thing, but this is a good debate between both sides of the “Carney’s playing 3-D chess” argument.
I’m under no illusions that this will change any minds, or even that people will actually watch the thing, but this is a good debate between both sides of the “Carney’s playing 3-D chess” argument.
I would have agreed with you completely up until last week, when he gave the project to a Crown corporation.
Simply removing federal resistance and letting Smith try and fail to find a company willing to build the thing seemed smart.
This new approach…I’m not so sure.
Yeah but this isn’t cheap, he isn’t just “simply letting Smith try and fail”, he’s committing federal funding for that folly. So it’s not that smart, as if it would cost nothing to say “yeah sure go ahead”, he’s willing to throw money into the fire to build the pipeline, and the pipeline doesn’t really need to be necessary to be built, it just needs funding and the contractors to run the pipes.
The only way he “wins” this game is in the case where the pipeline actually doesn’t get built, but I wouldn’t bet on that, regardless of the pipeline being necessary or a good investment. Also, if the pipeline doesn’t get built, does BC still get the funding for all that good stuff? If so, then yes that’s maybe a good gamble.