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Ron DyckMark Carney runs roughshod over the environment
https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/mark-carney-runs-roughshod-over-the-environment-its-worse-than-what-harper-did/article_1fa59928-a8d5-481a-896b-405c86a466d1.html
Sir Osis of Liver 🇨🇦 🇲🇽What a load of horseshit.
The overlapping federal/provincial jurisdictions and interdepartmental redundancy of reviews as they stand right now are absolutely onerous on any sort of development project.
What they're trying to get to is streamlining the system and reduce redundancy. There are proposals but nothing that constitutes a plan yet, at least not publicly.
But the current stagnation is exactly what some people prefer, economy be damned.
@Sir_Osis_of_Liver “We are not opposed to streamlining processes ... But improving regulatory expediency shouldn’t come at the cost of healthy ecosystems.”
The company I work with helps industry in applying for regulatory approvals. Some of these systems are just ridiculous.
If you jump through all those hoops and get to the public hearing phase, you get the gamut of serious people making well researched points, to NIMBYs, to absolute loons spouting all sorts of conspiracy theories and fabrications.
Depending on the project, just that phase can drag things out. Limiting that phase leads to all sorts of accusations of ignoring the public or ramming a project through.
For a fair number of small projects, where the client is new to the process (existing business branching out, or some start up with little experience), they look at the regulatory costs and just give up.