Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???
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MilEME09
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This is how I can tell the MOU has substance, Mr anti pipeline aint happy
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Remarkable, not seen this in the MSM. I did watch the Committee hearings. Confirmed my opinion that Senior Public Servants need to be accountable.
Joly under fire after deputy admits she never read $15-billion Stellantis subsidy deal
Industry Minister Mélanie Joly is facing sharp questions after her top official admitted she never read the $15 billion Stellantis contract she has been defending, even as the automaker prepares to cut 3,000 jobs.www.westernstandard.news
Joly under fire after deputy admits she never read $15-billion Stellantis subsidy deal 26 Nov 25
Of course she didn't read it, and if she did she wouldn't understand most of it anyway (especially if GoC lawyers had their hand in it; they obfuscate like a mofo and get offended if you ask for contracts in plain language. The remedy clause in the NSS Umbrella agreement is so poorly written the GoC lawyer that wrote it couldn't explain what it actually meant and is unenforceable.)
The remedy clauses are also impossible to enforce when every time there is an issue the contractor runs to some MP to whine they are getting picked on by the big meanies in DND and PSPC, and the PS get taken out at the knees by politicians.
Holding people accountable is fine when it's their fault, but there are so many systematic things and direct interferences in big contracts that you'd more likely to just be scapegoating someone (but doing nothing to change the system that lead to the issue).
Great that they actually want to enforce it in this case, but guessing their lawyers are way better than ours so not optimistic. But if they want that to be the norm, really need a major overhaul in how contracts are drafted, and who actually has veto on it. Far too many times other departments have clauses that can absolutely write off a contract, or massively increase costs, when they have zero responsibility for the costs, schedule etc.
Also it’s absurd to think a cabinet minister or DM has personally read a lengthy contract. They definitely don’t have the time, and almost certainly lack the legal training or subject matter expertise to properly grasp it. This is the sort of thing where senior executives are briefed succinctly by policy analysts and lawyers whose job it is to distill complex matters into something fast enough for the decision makers to digest.
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Bye Bye Stevie Boy!
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Now, cross the floor to the Greens.
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The minister responsible for official languages spelled honour wrong. Go figure.
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One by one Carney is pushing out all the biggest influences in PMJT's policiesNature is healing ...
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No Pathways, no pipeline.
No pipeline, no Pathways
Pathways Alliance
Suncor
Imperial
ConocoPhillips
Cenovus
Canadian Natural
Mikisew Cree and Fort McKay First Nations own a 49% stake in the Suncor East Tank Farm
The Mikisew and 22 other First Nations own an 11.57% stake in a group of 7 Enbrdge oil lines in the Athabaska region.
Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation provincial money supplying First Nations loan guarantees.
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Concurrent activity South Bow has declared plans to double output.
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I don't think it will take long for a proponent, probably a consortium like Pathways itself, to take shape.
No pipeline, no Pathways
Pathways Alliance
Suncor
Imperial
ConocoPhillips
Cenovus
Canadian Natural
Mikisew Cree and Fort McKay First Nations own a 49% stake in the Suncor East Tank Farm
The Mikisew and 22 other First Nations own an 11.57% stake in a group of 7 Enbrdge oil lines in the Athabaska region.
Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation provincial money supplying First Nations loan guarantees.
...
Concurrent activity South Bow has declared plans to double output.
...
I don't think it will take long for a proponent, probably a consortium like Pathways itself, to take shape.
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Well, yes. All the better to serve a search warrant lol!
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If he replaces them with some ‘centrist’ politicians, it will make things difficult for PP going forward.
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I wouldn’t be shocked if Alberta takes a 10-15% stake in the new pipeline.
I suspect this is more for the purpose of government and major institutional data infrastructure. But we already have search warrant provisions allowing us to use computers on site to access cloud based data, providing we have the technical capability to make use of them.
The problem with executing search warrants on servers is that now you have a server’s worth of data to contend with for disclosure. It friggin’ sucks.
