Strikes me Nate is making a pitch here during Ontario Liberal convention in Toronto as he vies for the leadership again. Of course, everything Nate says about Doug Ford’s impeding Carney’s progress is perfectly true. Ford is a blowhard populist premier rarely thinking about anything before he opens his big mouth. However, all that seems to go over big with most Ontarians judging by the polls. Populations these days seem to have abandoned all critical thinking skilss if indeed they ever learned any in Ontario’s disintegrating education system after so many years of Ford government mismanaging it and interfering in it as it does in so many other areas including health care that Ford has woefully underfunded especially regarding nurses’ salaries and workload driving them to quit or move to other jurisdictions. I wish Nate well in his bid for the leadership of the Ontario Liberals, but his often nuanced insights and critiques fall far too often on deaf ears of the general population.
- An LNG project owed by US interests which will increase our GHG emissions.
- Small modular reactors made by a US and Japanese company which will require enriched uranium imports and which are a costly and unproven technology.
- A port to be built by a firm based in Dubai.
- Two mines, one owned by US company Newmont.
So, approving extractivism and foreign companies. Elbows up for the US and fossil fuel industry! What about renewable energy, high-speed rail, mass transit, energy conservation, net-zero housing....? Let's build Canada, not destroy it!
Just a correction: The LNG project itself is owned by a consortium of five transnational companies, including Shell and several Asian oil companies. None of the companies in the LNG consortium are Canadian. See https://www.lngcanada.ca/who-we-are/joint-venture-participants/ The pipeline carrying the gas to the terminal is owned 65% by KKR, a US equity firm.
Much of what you've written here is sound. But, and it is a big but, the failure of the federal government to fill federal judge vacancies is a very big part of judicial slowdowns. More than any provincial neglect in terms of the administration of justice. While there is no question that Ontario could use a more focused government, and considerably more lower income and supportive housing, there are factors beyond gaining additional provincial funding that come into play. Apparently, we have a surfeit of smaller condos on the market. We have a significant shortage of supportive housing. Hmmmm. That looks like an opportunity.
Basic income.
To answer your question, I think your last paragraph sums it up nicely. So we need Carney to do what he said he’d do and we need Ford to go.
We also need to remember traditional women’s jobs need support. Current job list is trad male job. Auto sector. Steel.
Women need financial support too
33 BILLION renewable wind and solar projects ready to go in AB. And that was not a top five choice??
Strikes me Nate is making a pitch here during Ontario Liberal convention in Toronto as he vies for the leadership again. Of course, everything Nate says about Doug Ford’s impeding Carney’s progress is perfectly true. Ford is a blowhard populist premier rarely thinking about anything before he opens his big mouth. However, all that seems to go over big with most Ontarians judging by the polls. Populations these days seem to have abandoned all critical thinking skilss if indeed they ever learned any in Ontario’s disintegrating education system after so many years of Ford government mismanaging it and interfering in it as it does in so many other areas including health care that Ford has woefully underfunded especially regarding nurses’ salaries and workload driving them to quit or move to other jurisdictions. I wish Nate well in his bid for the leadership of the Ontario Liberals, but his often nuanced insights and critiques fall far too often on deaf ears of the general population.
Five projects approved so far:
- An LNG project owed by US interests which will increase our GHG emissions.
- Small modular reactors made by a US and Japanese company which will require enriched uranium imports and which are a costly and unproven technology.
- A port to be built by a firm based in Dubai.
- Two mines, one owned by US company Newmont.
So, approving extractivism and foreign companies. Elbows up for the US and fossil fuel industry! What about renewable energy, high-speed rail, mass transit, energy conservation, net-zero housing....? Let's build Canada, not destroy it!
Just a correction: The LNG project itself is owned by a consortium of five transnational companies, including Shell and several Asian oil companies. None of the companies in the LNG consortium are Canadian. See https://www.lngcanada.ca/who-we-are/joint-venture-participants/ The pipeline carrying the gas to the terminal is owned 65% by KKR, a US equity firm.
Much of what you've written here is sound. But, and it is a big but, the failure of the federal government to fill federal judge vacancies is a very big part of judicial slowdowns. More than any provincial neglect in terms of the administration of justice. While there is no question that Ontario could use a more focused government, and considerably more lower income and supportive housing, there are factors beyond gaining additional provincial funding that come into play. Apparently, we have a surfeit of smaller condos on the market. We have a significant shortage of supportive housing. Hmmmm. That looks like an opportunity.