The 'whine' and cheese industry is the only growth industry in Canada.
C-5 is interesting, in a lot of ways it is what Pierre Poilievre would have done if elected and the whiners would be screaming from the top of the CN Tower in the big Cheese of Toronto.
If anything except whining happens in Canada in the next four years a lot more protesters will have to go to jail for whining and protesting outside of the rule of Law and Order.
My guess is the jails will stay empty and nothing will be built in Canada in the next four years.
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This article brings up the Elephant in the room, it says that BC Hydro is touting its new North Coast Transmission Line Project. Kennedy Gordan is speaking the truth when he questions where the electricity will come from to supply power for up to twenty new mines. At a BC Hydro town hall meeting last year I ask the BC Hydro construction line head project manager the same question. I did not get a proper answer. His answer was that suppling power for the line was not his department. This reminded me that BC Hydro is a government organization and like all government organizations the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing.
When straight answers are avoided or brushed off it leaves one questioning what is really the truth?
Twenty plus new mega mines is hard to believe.
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We need safe ways to transport all things, not just oil and gas.
Massive Roll on Roll off vehicle ships are becoming more problematic on the oceans than Massive oil tankers. A burning, abandoned car ship is currently floating around the North Pacific as I type this comment. Why is it burning? Electric cars and their lithium-ion batteries are burning. Lithium-ion fires are impossible to put out, especially when they are crammed tightly into a ship. The crew abandoned ship and needed to be rescued. Lithium-ion battery fires are becoming a big issue in shipping. This current fire is just one of many around the world the past several years. Maybe time to abandon EV's until we can find a way to safely transport them.
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Lou Maurice wants to know where drug labs are hidden.
Lou they are hidden all over.
In rural shops.
In urban shops.
In single family homes maybe in a house near you.
When these homes or properties are raided by police or as in a recent case when a house exploded with a drug lab inside the mainstream stream media sometimes report these incidents.
Lou you have to actually read the articles that mainstream media produces, not just my comments.
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Mr. Science- What does brain surgeons have to do with tarifs?
Why is crime reporting fear mongering?
Good luck with your conversation with the King tomorrow on the Moon. Brain surgery and unchecked criminal activity are both scary topics.
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Lou Maurice- There was an industrial scale ILLEGAL drug lab raided in BC's south east interior last year. This drug bust brought international attention to BC. INDUSTRIAL SIZED MACHINES WERE MAKING FENTENYL in an illegal FACTORY.
HOW MUCH PROOF DO YOU NEED TO SEE THAT BC IS A DISASTER ZONE?
This was well reported by main stream media.
I tried to give more proof last night in another comment, but my comment so far has been rejected. In that comment I used independent news media as references. Main stream media is in a lot of cases not doing its job, but they did report this industrial scale illegal drug lab shut down. Maybe only 3999 illegal drug labs to shut down.
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This article missed a big item.
The free trade of illegal drugs.
One of Donald Trumps talking points has been how Canada and Mexico use the porous and open border to peddle things like fentanyl.
In some ways "free Trade'' is directly contributing to the "deaths of despair" mentioned in this article.
China and possibly other countries are using open borders of "free Trade' to bring the chemicals to produce fentanyl and other illegal drugs into Canada. I have read that as many as 4000 illegal drug labs may exist in Canada. Yes this a problem made possible by free trade in raw materials to produce illegal drugs. Canada, Mexico and the USofA all need more legal manufacturing plants of useful goods, not the illegal drug labs that contribute to deaths of despair. Canada seems to turn a blind eye to these illegal operations.
Instead Canada puts punitive taxes, punitive rules and punitive regulations that make legal manufacturers of real legal goods hard to produce in Canada.
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DD22- In order to "buy local'' the local business has to be cost competitive. This editorial says that the PG Citizen has the capacity to produce glossy magazines. I believe the current editor Kennedy Gordon is from back east and possibly is aware of production cost of larger and possibly more efficient print shops back east. As Gordon points out Neil Godbout as a former editor of the PG Citizen is well aware that the PG Citizen is capable of producing a glossy magazine, but Godbout would also know the approximate cost of producing this magazine locally. So the question for Mr. Gordon is - Can the PG Citizen compete with larger print shops back east?
If Gordon believes that his organization can be competitive it would have been nice if he had made that statement in the editorial.
BC in general is not cost competitive. I know of a Richmond BC based hobby business that sells books to Libraries. They freight these books back and forth to Calgary to have the ISBN number put on the book.
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Neil Godbout is probably correct. A ''Glossy magazine" should be published "back east".
Back east is where all of the glossy elites live that have run Canada into the ground the past 10 years.
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Started an application in 2022, formally submitted in May 2024, application was deemed complete in the fall of 2024, which kicked off a 450 day review process.
The company 'HOPES' a product certificate in the second quarter of 2026.
Then the company will have to build work camps, hire 850 people, order pipe, compressors and misc. material and then maybe install some pipe beside an existing line.
A four year regulatory process for a two year construction job. The rules and regulations are more than the construction period.
There is something wrong with Canada, too many people are looking to oppose people that want to build things.
Hopefully Bill C-5 will end this nonsense, but I doubt it.
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