Curious that this piece would attract commentary in a way I haven't seen before in reaction to your musings. Reasonable people can disagree and still be reasonable. When it devolves into personal attacks, it is no longer reasonable.
I don't see how a piece on Canada's trustworthiness and reliability on the gobal stage making it an ideal place to invest can be construed as advocating for anything other than taking advantage of that fact. And it is a fact, not an opinion.
In a capitalist system, the market determines where those investments go, whether it is natural resources such as oil & gas, nuclear, hydro, solar, wind, minerals, timber, etc., or banking, construction, transportation, and countless other categories. The point is that an investment in Canada is more trustworty than an investment in many other places.
All true except the last PM pretty much ignored all the business cases for energy export despite....is begging too strong a word.....how many countries asking? Oh and then there's that selective legislation like the "west" coast tanker ban but tankers on the east coast are AOK. Funny Alaskan tankers still transit the west coast. And worse those east coast tankers are carrying oil from some of the most repressive regimes. Business like stability, is scared of quick decisions made for votes/optics, then there are the quagmire of red tape and higher business taxes. That kind of decision making is why business voted with their wallets and left Canada.......$1 trillion investment in, $2 trillion out.
The ‘tell’ of advocacy is shilling nuclear power for a ‘crisis solution’ when it is both ridiculously expensive and decades before completion. But, sure, ‘another pipeline’ is pretty poor, too.
I haven’t read the Globe article but Birol nor Hall Findley support nuclear except as a distraction, so this feels like you channeling Lecce and Ford. Am I wrong?
I'm "channelling" Lecce and Ford? What, like I'm on their payroll? A mole? Doug Ford's sock puppet?
Do you have any idea how a lifelong independent journalist and writer might feel about being accused of "shilling" for this or that interest?
No? I'll tell you: It's about the worst insult you can level. Worse than accusing me of beating puppies.
And you think it's wise or fair or reasonable to just toss that off casually, then, when asked, admit that you have not the slightest basis for the accusation?
Good for you. I gasped when I read the shilling comment. Most people need to take a beat before writing their comments. I'm always shocked almost speechless by the sarcasm and casual insults. Your response is pitch perfect.
Building New NUCLEAR power Facilities STILL JUST WAY TOO DANGERIOUS!. Even in the 21st Century to be economically useful or Helpful to Economics or to Our Great Repution in Global Soceity! The same Corcerns can be Forseen with Our Proud &Diverse Cityscapes and Bold Provincial Town at are cCore! Could you Even Imgine Imagine the “Crogmire of Complexites” & Danger of #An_British_Columbia & Alberta City Awoke to an verison of AN #Folkashama OR disaster #IN THIER BACK DOOR? It Would Lead to UnThinkalbe Danger and Deep Econimal #DEPRESSION Especaily Would Halt Bussiness and Even Acces Much Of the #Tourist Earners & Envomental & National Iconic Treasures of Canada Which the Western World Trusts Us AS an Steady Gaurdian Of For Over an Century!! AlsoCountential North America & Other West-Pacific Island Ecosystems & Eccomic Systems could Decline in Many Problemic Ways Thier is Allways An #CHEAPER; #SAFER #CLEANER TO HARNESS ENERGY CHEAPLY FROM Our SUN Natural WORLD Weather or Even the Tidal Force of The Moon Before Seeking to Steal energy from Breaking invincible Objects we Can Cant Natually perceive at All 🤔💨
Perhaps rather than offer the intellectual equivalent of theatre criticism, you might offer something substantive: Explain what you think is wrong and why.
Do world leaders pay enough attention to Canadian politics to see the many faces of Canada's effective monarch? That's the PM. His minister mandate letters, smoke and mirror budgets/updates, don't point to a reliable country. Remember how Germany had a "reliable" source of natural gas until they didn't. Can Canada been "that" country if we have trouble getting our own shite together?
How are you feeling about this government's start, Dan? I'm seeing a lot of borrowed money being assigned to this and that but very little in the way of structural change that would build more homes, mines and businesses.
Curious that this piece would attract commentary in a way I haven't seen before in reaction to your musings. Reasonable people can disagree and still be reasonable. When it devolves into personal attacks, it is no longer reasonable.
I don't see how a piece on Canada's trustworthiness and reliability on the gobal stage making it an ideal place to invest can be construed as advocating for anything other than taking advantage of that fact. And it is a fact, not an opinion.
In a capitalist system, the market determines where those investments go, whether it is natural resources such as oil & gas, nuclear, hydro, solar, wind, minerals, timber, etc., or banking, construction, transportation, and countless other categories. The point is that an investment in Canada is more trustworty than an investment in many other places.
How is that controversial?
All true except the last PM pretty much ignored all the business cases for energy export despite....is begging too strong a word.....how many countries asking? Oh and then there's that selective legislation like the "west" coast tanker ban but tankers on the east coast are AOK. Funny Alaskan tankers still transit the west coast. And worse those east coast tankers are carrying oil from some of the most repressive regimes. Business like stability, is scared of quick decisions made for votes/optics, then there are the quagmire of red tape and higher business taxes. That kind of decision making is why business voted with their wallets and left Canada.......$1 trillion investment in, $2 trillion out.
The ‘tell’ of advocacy is shilling nuclear power for a ‘crisis solution’ when it is both ridiculously expensive and decades before completion. But, sure, ‘another pipeline’ is pretty poor, too.
Who do you think is doing the "shilling" here, Blair?
I haven’t read the Globe article but Birol nor Hall Findley support nuclear except as a distraction, so this feels like you channeling Lecce and Ford. Am I wrong?
I'm "channelling" Lecce and Ford? What, like I'm on their payroll? A mole? Doug Ford's sock puppet?
Do you have any idea how a lifelong independent journalist and writer might feel about being accused of "shilling" for this or that interest?
No? I'll tell you: It's about the worst insult you can level. Worse than accusing me of beating puppies.
And you think it's wise or fair or reasonable to just toss that off casually, then, when asked, admit that you have not the slightest basis for the accusation?
Yes you are wrong. And that's the least of it.
Good for you. I gasped when I read the shilling comment. Most people need to take a beat before writing their comments. I'm always shocked almost speechless by the sarcasm and casual insults. Your response is pitch perfect.
Building New NUCLEAR power Facilities STILL JUST WAY TOO DANGERIOUS!. Even in the 21st Century to be economically useful or Helpful to Economics or to Our Great Repution in Global Soceity! The same Corcerns can be Forseen with Our Proud &Diverse Cityscapes and Bold Provincial Town at are cCore! Could you Even Imgine Imagine the “Crogmire of Complexites” & Danger of #An_British_Columbia & Alberta City Awoke to an verison of AN #Folkashama OR disaster #IN THIER BACK DOOR? It Would Lead to UnThinkalbe Danger and Deep Econimal #DEPRESSION Especaily Would Halt Bussiness and Even Acces Much Of the #Tourist Earners & Envomental & National Iconic Treasures of Canada Which the Western World Trusts Us AS an Steady Gaurdian Of For Over an Century!! AlsoCountential North America & Other West-Pacific Island Ecosystems & Eccomic Systems could Decline in Many Problemic Ways Thier is Allways An #CHEAPER; #SAFER #CLEANER TO HARNESS ENERGY CHEAPLY FROM Our SUN Natural WORLD Weather or Even the Tidal Force of The Moon Before Seeking to Steal energy from Breaking invincible Objects we Can Cant Natually perceive at All 🤔💨
This article is bordering on delusion, author reveals himself to be a poor thinker when it comes to complex systems.
Perhaps rather than offer the intellectual equivalent of theatre criticism, you might offer something substantive: Explain what you think is wrong and why.
Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency, has likely forgotten all that you could likely learn in a decade
Do world leaders pay enough attention to Canadian politics to see the many faces of Canada's effective monarch? That's the PM. His minister mandate letters, smoke and mirror budgets/updates, don't point to a reliable country. Remember how Germany had a "reliable" source of natural gas until they didn't. Can Canada been "that" country if we have trouble getting our own shite together?
How are you feeling about this government's start, Dan? I'm seeing a lot of borrowed money being assigned to this and that but very little in the way of structural change that would build more homes, mines and businesses.