Sie haben also eine Pipeline gekauft. Was jetzt? Kanadas 34 Milliarden US-Dollar teure Erweiterung der Trans-Mountain-Pipeline steht kurz vor der Inbetriebnahme. Jetzt kommt der schwierige Teil – zu entscheiden, wann man es verkauft, wer es kaufen darf und für wie viel
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I have to pat Trudeau on the back for this one and would like to hear Poilievre’s suggestions. Wonder if he has the balls to posit on TMX?
Why do we need to sell it
People in this country – don’t sell the LCBO! It makes money! Also people in this country – let’s ditch a vital piece of infrastructure.
First thing Poilievre will do, he will sell it to a Russian or Chinese state-owned corporation while bitching our own state-owned corps. haha
I suppose keeping vital energy infrastructure in public hands would be out of the question 🙄
If they sell it they should keep a percentage of royalties for the lifespan of the pipeline.
Make the payoff long term
Imo – Assets constructed with tax dollars should remain public assets.
Ideally the government would keep it to generate revenue.
Realistically they’ll sell it to some friends of theirs in exchange for a pricey vacation somewhere.
Alberta says *What have you done for me lately?*
Why sell it? Keep a reserve of fuel for Canadians, we could offset buying oil from a dictatorship like Saudi Arabia.
Who will be paying for the effects of emissions from all the flowing petroleum that will be burned?
Our resource industry should be nationalized and all the profits get spent on healthcare, education and the military.
Let’s continue to pay carbon tax
The federal government should own it until the last drop of oil is sent through it. Then run some soapy water through it and pump water in the opposite direction.
Or just keep it and also keep the profits from operating it?
They’ll just give it away
Why the fuck arent we keeping it to generate revenue?
Keep it and charge the transit fees until it’s paid off and perhaps we can make some profit for the country?
They should take the company public through an IPO, and retain 60% of the shares. The company can then be ran like a private company, the government would retain a majority position on the board, the finances would be public information, and the government would receive 60% of the dividends paid.
The company can either pay the government the earnings from the IPO to pay down the cost of construction, or can reinvest the earnings into the company for growth.
This is also what the government could do with the CBC. Finding a middle ground between privatizing, while still maintaining control.
Keep it, get the profits and make Enbridge and TC energy fight over themselves in bidding.
Government needs to pay the banks that financed it
They need to keep control and run it . In Ontario we built a beautiful toll highway they sold it to a French company at a loss Kevin O’Leary is right this country is run by idiots
Sell it, nooo they will just give to the the indigenous for free
The province of Alberta should buy it.
Weren’t they already working out a deal to sell the pipeline, or part of it, to First Nations groups? By giving them a loan from the government to pay for it?
Edit: Okay I did remember this correctly.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/canada-to-sell-trans-mountain-pipeline-stake-to-indigenous-groups-1.1956638.amp.html
Russia is playing FAFO, now seems like a GREAT time.
How about the government keep it and run it and with the generated revenue they can lower the tax burden on the citizens…. But no they will take lump some from some company that will probably get it for a fraction of the cost and we will never know where that money even ended up going and the new owner will just find ways to squeeze every penny of profit out of it and us
“Trans Mountain” smh this is the lbgtq agenda that the libs keep pushing
Probably hard to sell a 7 thousand dollar car for 38 thousand, no?
I mean, thats what happened, no?
It cost $34 Billion.. so the Government will sell it for $24 Billion and we’ll have no say in how it operates, etc.