the purpose of these projects is to increase stock prices, and that will probably work. almost none of this will get built.
the most important projects we could build that would benefit a majority of canadians would have to do with:
- planting trees
- increasing building efficiencies
- increasing inner city air quality using projects like green roofing
- healthcare investments
- education investments
- housing investments
- electric transportation infrastructure
there's not a trace of any of that in the government's priorities. it's all mining and fossil fuels.
instead of building projects to increase the quality of life for canadians, carney is concerned solely in building export economies designed to generate profit at the expense of quality of life and, more importantly, to benefit foreign investors, and that should have been obvious to voters, but wasn't.
we need an immediate election. the conservatives might win, but that would send the liberals the memo from canadians and be a better outcome than letting the liberals govern like conservatives.
to be clear: we need more hydro power development, and i would support more money for more hydro more generally, but the population of baffin island, which is more than twice the size of britain, is less than 15,000. that's the population of a city block in toronto. even if climate change accelerates off the rails, that area will still have six month long polar nights with weeks of -50 weather, and these rivers being considered to be dammed will freeze over solid for months of the year for decades or centuries to come. it's nonsense.