Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[ytz]

"Prioritize the U.S. and allies under the “domestic end product” and “domestic components” requirements of the Build America,
Buy America Act.5 Currently, defense companies are required to manufacture defense items for the U.S. government that are 100 percent domestically produced and at least 50 percent composed of domestically produced components. However, there are loopholes that allow companies to manufacture these items overseas. This can create supply chain and other issues, especially in wartime. Manufacturing components and end products domestically and with allies spurs factory development, increases American jobs, and builds resilience in America’s defense industrial base.

Review the sectors currently prioritized for onshoring or “friendshoring” of manufacturing (kinetic capabilities, castings and forgings, critical materials, microelectronics, space, and electric vehicle batteries); evaluate them according to the strategic landscape; and expand or reprioritize the list as appropriate."

This is the only part that any Canadian politician (right or left) cares about: trade access to the US. Canadians only act when that is threatened. If Trump threatens to close the Northern border, we'll all be getting six figure retention cheques to boost defence spending immediately. And every new ACSV is going to come with gold plated cup holders.

 

[dapaterson]

The legal fights coming will be quite entertaining to watch though....

Almost as if the various bars of the provinces and territories are licking their lips and saying "Ooh, lots of billable hours ahead!"

 

[childs56]

What influence did they have between 2011 and 2015 when the Conservatives had a majority in Parliament? And it's not like the Conservatives really cared about Opposition concerns over other controversial issues like the Long Form Census, Long gun registry, climate change, etc. So why exactly couldn't they simply ram it through?

They were following the legal process including environmental assessments and approvals. For projects like that take about 10-15 years.

I am going to suggest it's not that easy, in no small part because our constitution gives provinces and lately indigenous groups a ton of power over this and industry would have always had to play ball.

Funny part is indigenous are now taking those agaisnt certain projects to court due to the delays and lost money.

This is also why I predict the next government is going to find it even more difficult.

even more so because of the road blocks the liberals, ndp and bloc have put in place through various bills.

Rhetoric doesn't change legal rulings.

OICs appear to do so.

And the notwithstanding clause can't be used to simply overturn provincial authorities.

It won't have to be if things are done properly.

The legal fights coming will be quite entertaining to watch though....

There won't be many legal fights lasting that long. Most of the people fighting agaisnt these are either not from there, trying to make a name for themselves or paid activists, or a combination of all three.

One thing I have learned is a government can use a OIC to ram through any legislation they want.

 

[Cloud Cover]

Between 2011 and 2015, the Liberals and the NDP threw their support behind the dozens of lawsuits, pipeline injunctions, regulatory delays, inter provincial squabbling and basically did everything they could outside of Parliament to stop, hinder, obstruct, delay and otherwise interfere in resource development and especially oil sands development.
Where they all were conspicuously silent? Any resource development in Quebec and any acquisitions, developments, expansions, movements and change of control of CHINESE corporate mining interests in Gold, Oil, REM, Forestry and related technologies.

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Perhaps you can enlighten us on what resource development occurred in Quebec between 2011 and 2015, because quite frankly, I missed it completely.

 

[childs56]

Perhaps you can enlighten us on what resource development occurred in Quebec between 2011 and 2015, because quite frankly, I missed it completely.

They approved a natural gas plant. The province put it off.
They also approved a very large cement plant with a lighting quick process

 

[ytz]

Between 2011 and 2015, the Liberals and the NDP threw their support behind the dozens of lawsuits, pipeline injunctions, regulatory delays, inter provincial squabbling and basically did everything they could outside of Parliament to stop, hinder, obstruct, delay and otherwise interfere in resource development and especially oil sands development.
Where they all were conspicuously silent? Any resource development in Quebec and any acquisitions, developments, expansions, movements and change of control of CHINESE corporate mining interests in Gold, Oil, REM, Forestry and related technologies.

This is such a weird post. Are you suggesting the goverment in power is not responsible for getting things done? The complaint about Chinese influence is particularly weird given this:

Canada ratifies investment deal with China despite misgivings

Canada has finally ratified the contentious Foreign Investment Protection Agreement with China amid a series of recent tensions between the two countries that had placed Prime Minister Stephen Harper's scheduled Chinese visit this fall on tenterhooks.

www.ctvnews.ca

You should blame the government in power when they screw up. That is true for the one in power today, the one that was in power a decade ago and the one that will be in power a decade from now. That's how accountability works.

 

[suffolkowner]

They approved a natural gas plant. The province put it off.
They also approved a very large cement plant with a lighting quick process

that McInnis cement plant was a disaster of an idea from day one

 

[SeaKingTacco]

What influence did they have between 2011 and 2015 when the Conservatives had a majority in Parliament? And it's not like the Conservatives really cared about Opposition concerns over other controversial issues like the Long Form Census, Long gun registry, climate change, etc. So why exactly couldn't they simply ram it through?

I am going to suggest it's not that easy, in no small part because our constitution gives provinces and lately indigenous groups a ton of power over this and industry would have always had to play ball. This is also why I predict the next government is going to find it even more difficult. Rhetoric doesn't change legal rulings. And the notwithstanding clause can't be used to simply overturn provincial authorities. The legal fights coming will be quite entertaining to watch though....

Under Harper, the Regulatory and approval process for oil and gas projects was rigorous and long. As Cloud Cover pointed out- about 10-15 years. But they were still getting approvals.

Under Trudeau, that got ratchetted up to impossible, because of the rules they added.