Senate passes controversial bill to fast-track major projects
Senate passes controversial bill to fast-track major projects
The Senate has passed C-5, the Liberal government’s controversial major projects bill.
Ontario's green belt is about to be completely developed, and no one can opposes it now.
Personally, I'm very happy to see it passed. I'm getting a little tired of indigenous communities holding us hostage, preventing any real economic progress. We are a resource rich nation, and we need to use that to our benefit if we want to prosper.
Wow. Lots to unpack there. Skipping over the part where you believe the government shouldn't need to honour the contracts they've signed with First Nations if they don't feel like it, unchecked resource extraction is also terrible.
The island nation of Nauru discovered huge deposits of phosphate under their land. The government began large scale mining operations in the 80s which saw the country sky rocket to highest GDP per capita in the entire world. The mining industry brought in huge sums of money for the country and it's people. Mining became the biggest industry in the entire nation, with most people leaving their old job and getting a new high paying one in the ever expanding mining industry. An economic phenomena known as "Dutch Disease". If that name doesn't sound like a good thing, it's because it's not.
The market price of phosphate eventually dropped. The mining industry faced massive downturn and layoffs. The country had tore up their farmlands to build mines and farmers had left agriculture to become miners. They were importing most of their food with the money they made in mining. Money they no longer had. They also had a large tourism industry that no longer exists because they no longer have a single beach. All of them were turned into mining operations. Today the country struggles with poverty and is unable to rebuild any of the industries that mining killed. Their main source of income today is holding prisoners from Australia.
Skipping over the part where you believe the government shouldn't need to honour the contracts they've signed with First Nations if they don't feel like it,
That's putting it too favorably. This person is arguing for the Canadian government to seize land and resources has no rightful claim to from an unconsenting indigenous people. We already have a word for this: colonialism.
It's fucking short-sighted is what it is. The bill is bad, it's far too vague and gives far too much power to the federal government which will hurt us in the long run.
Yeah, we won’t really be prosperous until we’re losing multiple cities a year to wild fires.
Oh sweet a one day old racist idiot account. Block and move on.
Thank you for your garbage take which lead to some informative discussion below!
Fuck this imperialistic, purely exploitative, and victim-seeking, almost Nazi take.
- First Nations are part of Canada and they have a say in this country’s future.
- Prosperity and resource utilization do not have to be achieved by closing the door on discussions that need to be had.
- This bill is blatantly and clearly undemocratic, and is a threat that can throw this country into the similar shit show that we see down south. If you’re happy to see it passed, I don’t know what to say about you.
I’m hoping this is just your bad take and not trying to parrot some shit rhetoric that’s been coming out of certain talk figures and some less reputable users around here.