Angus Reid: Die Kanadier unterstützen im Großen und Ganzen die schnelle Verfolgung nationaler Interessensprojekte
Angus Reid: Die Kanadier unterstützen im Großen und Ganzen die schnelle Verfolgung nationaler Interessensprojekte
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The issue is that Canadians broadly support anything that sounds good and if it does well, they will proudly talk about their support. If something flops, suddenly they always hated it.
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I don’t think there’s anything wrong with progressives having issues with bills such as these, but the issue I have is when people act like Carney is acting like a dictator or not doing what he promised to do (in the campaign said I will use every tool available to get things built asap and nothing is off the table)
not to mention, I’m incredibly thankful something like this has the conservative support; this is 100% the will of the people being represented and not some 40% majority government doing whatever they want. this was heavily disccused in the election and 80+% of our MPs agreed to it. No issues with having issues, but let’s not pretend this isn’t what many voted for.
Maybe Canadians turn on the bill someday but polling suggests people are tired of waiting and want stuff built after a decade of Trudeau reviewing everything forever. For the record, I’m indifferent to the bill, I have concerns but also see the desire for it. I just see this is what Canadians currently want and wanna see what happens with it.
I think the popularity of this will drop the minute they start specifying what the actual projects are. When I hear national interest projects, I might assume high speed rail, someone else might assume nuclear icebreakers, someone else might assume yet another bitumen pipeline. As long as it’s vague, everyone agrees because everyone imagines that their pet project is the national interest one.
Well, yeah. 85 percent of the country voted for parties that made it clear that building projects faster was a top priority.
Lets be honest, there are going to be two groups that generally oppose fast tracking. And it won’t be for the right reasons.
Provincial politicians – it erodes their power, shifts business interests and money/support to the Feds and doesn’t server their own interests.
Certain First Nations groups, tribal bands or leadership. Ironically for the same reasons as above.
Everyone else will benefit from fast tracking much needed national interest projects, and will be broadly behind them.
A rather vague and misleading headline, given that bypassing environmental reviews had well below 50% support. The answer to this question depends heavily on the framing of it, and the actual legislation isn’t just a vague vibe about working quickly – it involves bypassing environmental reviews. The plan is not to ignore the costs when the benefits are higher, the plan is to not even check what the costs are in the first place.
People always forget that regulations are written in blood, and it’s usually the role of government to be the boring nag who remembers that.