So we have money for this, but can’t build public housing. Right.
If oil is so profitable, let the oil companies foot the bill themselves.
Exactly this. All that “free market” talk always seems full of promise and idealism and then the government OKs subsidies like this and it’s just naked corporatism through and through.
The feds bought the pipeline in 2018. There is no private ownership.
An important distinction. “Loan” feels like the wrong headline word to go with them; perhaps “budget” would be more accurate
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Is this the one that goes through reservations, where we send the RCMP to steal even more land and displace the protesting natives?
Waste of our money on so many levels.
Blocking affordable EVs while building oil pipelines… that’s some bold commitment to stopping climate change!
Canada is blocking EVs?
Canada putting up some money in support of trans issues? take that, MAGA!
Unfortunately I support doing this so we can wean off American money.
I know this didn’t start with trumps tariffs, and I know fossil fuels are awful, and fossil fuel companies are among the worst.
I support this because oils create more than just fuel, and we’re in a drowning moment and need a lifeline.
I love listening to people talk about Trudeau in the office:
He does nothing for oil companies that “drive our economy.”
He also wastes money on TMX.
He also doesn’t do enough to separate our economy from the states, like building TMX.
He also doesn’t do enough to tie pur economy to the states.
Why is federal government providing favourable financing to the private sector?
Seems like communism to me tbh
For the owner class that is
They’re not. The feds bought the TMP from Kinder Morgan in 2018.
Hmm fun fact. Thank you for sharing.
Did fed bail out kinder Morgan or was this a fair deal to the tax payer.
Will taxpyer collect proepr transit fee for this once operational?
Yes, provided they don’t reprivatize it.
