COLLINS: Prime minister makes his choice
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PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY has clearly decided which basket to put his eggs in. He hasn’t put them all in the same basket, so he has not totally abandoned the old cliche, but his announcements today are clearly designed to load up the energy basket and lighten the environmental one.
The huge bulk of his plan is concerned with opening up the energy distribution and procurement vault, putting the idea of saving the planet onto the back burner in a dangerous spot, and it’s quite possible we may never catch up. We somehow believe climate change can wait, and we will milk the cash cow that the energy field provides just one more time with fingers crossed that we can rein in the destruction before it’s too late.
Now to be fair, some of the projects have an environmental component to them, but in essence, almost all have a primary goal of producing materials taken from the earth — whether they are rare minerals to run our electronics to shipping liquefied natural gas to run our industries. Energizing the country is more important than saving it.
We are told that the revenue from these projects will help bring our economy back from the dead and hopefully reduce our need to be bilked by the U.S. Canada is working to reduce dependence on the U.S. and any progress may be minor to the naked eye, but behind-the-scenes work is progressing to deal with other projects the government is working on, and we’ll see these coming together in the weeks to come.
