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The weak point for durability is public money, not the permitting law. The Conservatives attack state capital (Trans Mountain helping finance the West Coast pipeline, the Canada Strong Fund, the Pathways deal with Alberta) as corporate welfare. So privately financed projects that send resources south should survive any government, while publicly financed projects to sell elsewhere are exposed after the 2029 election.
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Supports (2)
- Poilievre on the Canada Strong Fund: 'How many corporate welfare agencies do the Trudeau-Carney liberals need to create before they learn that it doesn't work?'
Opposition frames the fund as corporate welfare.
Documented by: BNN Bloomberg, “PM Carney announces Canada's first national sovereign wealth fund” (external site), .
- Conservative MP Adam Chambers calls the Canada Strong Fund a 'Sovereign Debt Fund', quoting a Montreal Economic Institute report that describes it as 'a state lending bank wearing the branding of a wealth fund'
Conservative MP Adam Chambers attacked the Canada Strong Fund as a 'Sovereign Debt Fund', quoting a Montreal Economic Institute report that describes it as 'a state lending bank wearing the branding of a wealth fund': the same attack on state capital.
Documented by: Conservative Party of Canada, “Sovereign Debt Funds Don't Build Wealth” (external site), .
Complicates (2)
- Commons defeats Conservative motion backing a West Coast pipeline in the Canada–Alberta MOU's wording; only Conservatives vote yes
Conservatives voted to back the West Coast pipeline.
Documented by: Global News, “Liberals defeat Poilievre pipeline motion, insist they back future project” (external site), . and 4 more
- Poilievre on the Canada–Alberta MOU: a Conservative government 'would approve a pipeline to the Pacific without a carbon tax, without delay, without excuses'
Poilievre says he would approve a Pacific pipeline, a statement that may cushion the risk.
Documented by: Todayville, “Poilievre says West Coast pipeline MOU is no guarantee” (external site), . and 1 more
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