@odysseus93.bsky.social:
No Conservative party anywhere in the world 
including Pretendian Mark Carney, extreme right conservativeis going to represent women. They consider them to be a nuisance unless they are reproducing or feeding someone.
@pressprogress.ca:
Nearly all federal funds for gender equality could disappear in the next two years.
If the funding isn’t renewed, Canada’s Department for Women and Gender Equality could see its budget shrink by more than 80%.
via @pivot.quebec
Nearly All Federal Funds for Gender Equality Could Disappear in the Next Two Years, If funding isn’t renewed, the Department for Women and Gender Equality could see its budget shrink by 80% by Francis Hébert-Bernier, Aug 27, 2025, Pivot
This article was originally published by Pivot, an independent, non-profit francophone news outlet based in Québec — PressProgress and Pivot are working together to translate and republish each other’s stories.
The vast majority of funding for the federal department for Women and Gender Equality has not yet been renewed by the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney and could terminate between now and 2027.
Planned spending by Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE) could drop from nearly $407.1 million this year to just $76.3 million for the 2027-28 fiscal year, according to its latest departmental plan. Such a reduction would amount to more than 80% of the department’s operating budget and would primarily affect the funding for organizations working on the ground to combat gender-based inequalities and violence across the country.
“Once again, federal government action is raising serious concerns about whether it values equality, human rights and the significant contributions of women, trans, Two-Spirit and non-binary people to the economy and the country,” said an open letter released at the end of July signed by several hundred organizations working with women in vulnerable situations and the 2SLGBTQI+ community.
In an email to Pivot, the department said, “No funding cuts have been made.”Sleazy heartless dismissal and deflection. Nothing to cut, if funding is not renewed.
“The figures in the departmental plan do not represent any current or planned cuts to Women and Gender Equality Canada; rather, it reflects the currently planned expiry of certain time-limited program funding,” the statement continued.Douche fuckers supreme, like stepped down in shame from the supreme court of Canada ex judge Russell Brown (Harper judge)
“Departmental plans are routine documents released annually as part of our commitment to transparency and accountability.”
The projected decline in spending is mainly due to the approaching expiration of funding for several major programs. For example, $601 million had been budgeted for the National Action Plan to End Gender-based Violence from 2021 through the 2025-26 fiscal year.
Also approaching their respective ends are the 2SLGBTQI+ Community Capacity Fund (allotted $40 million for the five-year period from 2022 to 2027), funding to advance gender equality earmarked in the 2023 budget (including $160 million over three years for organizations serving women) and additional funding for the Menstrual Equity Fund that was allocated starting last year.
These fixed-term programs make up the bulk of funding for WAGE, according to Katherine Scott, a researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), who conducted an analysis of the department’s budget.
Because the funding WAGE provides to gender-equality organizations is project-oriented, Scott said, it creates a lot of uncertainty for these groups. “It’s just a precarious source of funding. They’re always looking at those points where they’re going to have to lay off all of their staff. They are constantly on this annual cycle of renewal, applying for funds to try to patch things together.”
There’s a risk, she said, that the department “could turn into an empty shell” if project funding isn’t renewed. “You don’t even need to make a big policy fuss about rescinding it, you just stop directing resources to it, and in a pretty short time you achieve the same end.”
She points out that, while it remains to be seen whether new funding for WAGE might be forthcoming in the federal budget expected this fall, “Right now, the only evidence we have are the departmental plans, and the departmental plans say that there will be a radical reduction in funds flowing by 2027.”
Vulnerability due to the political climate
Scott fears that the situation described in the departmental plan marks a return to the Harper years, when Status of Women Canada (the forerunner to WAGE) was reduced to its bare essentials. They “famously took the word ‘equality’ out of the mandate,” Scott said, because they considered the problem to have been solved.
But while Justin Trudeau’s government invested in these areas, Scott thinks that “the Carney government is certainly very keen to distance itself from the Trudeau record. And you know, it’s worrying for the groups on the ground that are not securely funded.”
Moreover, the fact that Carney waited until after the election to appoint Rechie Valdez as his first Minister of Women and Gender Equality could be a sign of the government’s lack of interest in these causes, both Scott and the community groups pointed out.
Scott notes that the situation is all the more worrisome in a context where the Liberal government is in the minority and its main opponent, the Conservative Party of CanadaNah, Carney and Pee Pee lead the same fucking anti human rights, anti women/girls, anti environment, anti science, anti Canada, anti truth, serve rape religions Harper2 Party, is openly hostile to several of the department’s mandates, particularly concerning the rights of the LGBTQ+ community.
“The government is like, ‘Oh, just trust us’ — they said that they would commit to the women’s programs — but it’s all loosey-goosey,” Scott said. “The one thing that they have been really clear on is that they want all departments to cut their expenses.”And WAGE gets hits the hardest. Typical con politico, typical catholic politico.
@lillym2.bsky.social:
I’m seeing a trend here…send the predominantly female flight attendants back to work…cut the Department for Women and Gender Equality…
@cimmeria.bsky.social:
Canada is MAGA nowIt sure is under Herr Hideous Traitor Con Man Carney!
@tryangregory.bsky.social:
Imagine having your brain this melted by partisan politics.
This is a comment on the fact that WAGE, which stands for Women And Gender Equity, is getting an 81% cut vs. 15% for other ministries.
@wetcoastgrumpa.bsky.social:
In addition. Why do you interpret cuts to the wage ministry as an attack on women. Perhaps the government decided to spread the work of this ministry, amongst others?
@mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social:
Suddenly, the libs are for austerity, pipelines, cbc cuts, via rail cuts, the obliteration of WAGE, and capitulation to trump.And $100M for USA AI companies, $billions for American kill companies (munitions), which Canadians must never trust since Adolf Orange threatened to annex Canada etc. I never thought I’d see the day I’d see Carney is more evil, more Nazi, more racist and more misogynistic than Steve Harper.
@bhaggart.bsky.social:
It is hard to exaggerate how much peril Canada is in, or how inadequate has been Carney’s response. *But reality is coming for Canada*, one way or another. The only question is, will we change course in time?
@winterscminter.bsky.social:
I can’t believe Canada is so a aquiescent. The US IS angling on destroying our economy, as they see it as only having grown up because of the benefits of being next door to the US. I’m grieved watching Canada sleepwalk into disaster. Me too. And listening to and watching the masses of Canadian Carney lovers that have tossed their minds, worshipping a dangerous creep more corrupt, anti environment, anti water, misogynistic and anti-Canada than Harper and Mulroney combined.
@tryangregory.bsky.social:
Every warning sign on every issue that we’ve pointed out about Carney has been borne out. Every time, Liberal partisans first told us to be quiet and to wait and see when we spoke up. Every time they then rationalized what we correctly predicted once it happened. Over and over and over.Humans denying reality is a terrible disease that harms many.
Carney’s focus on resource economy over people will hurt everyone, Women and Gender Equality Canada is facing cuts up to 80 percent of its budget by Dale Smith, August 14, 2025, Xtra Magazine
Keep in mind as you watch Carney’s evil and misogyny unfold and brutally harm Canadian women and girls, Nazis/fascists and their worshipping religions, notably evangelical christian and raping catholic, HATE women and girls. The first things to ooze out of Nazis/fascists, is decimating funding and protection for women/girls and taking away our rights, notably to our own bodies and health care, especially reproductive.
As part of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s mandate of “spending less to invest more,” major cuts are coming to federal government spending, and cuts of as much as 80 percent of the budget are expected at Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE). This could not come at a worse time, given that our neighbours to the south are now a full-on authoritarian state, causing global economic chaos that is impacting us here in Canada.
Because WAGE houses the 2SLGBTQI+ Secretariat, programs affecting queer and trans communities will be affected by these cuts.
The cuts at WAGE were listed in the 2025–26 departmental plan, stating that the department is going to let the bulk of their grants and contributions lapse and not renew their funding within the next two years. The departmental funding in the plan shows that not only is the statutory funding being cut (this being the operating funds for the department), but the “voted” funds, which are where the grants and contributions come from, are also being massively slashed. In the 2025–26 budget year, the statutory funding was $7.1 million, which is being reduced to $4.3 million by 2027–28. For voted funds, it’s even more dramatic, going from $400 million in 2025–26, down to $71 million by 2027–28.Herr Hideous Carney is a greedy, fascist, Trump ass-licking Zionist catholic insult to humanity.
A lot of the grants and contributions that are ending were related to WAGE’s Gender-Based Violence Program, and its supporting research and knowledge mobilization functions. Huge cuts are also coming for the Equality for Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Program (SSOGIE), which includes funding for queer and trans programming, including the Federal 2SLGBTQI+ Action Plan. The total grants and contributions are being slashed from nearly $208 million in 2025–26, to less than $1.9 million by 2027–28.c
“The 2025–26 and 2026–27 planned spending variance is due to the time-limited funding from Budget 2021 ending,” the document reads. That time-limited funding included capacity funding for Indigenous women’s and LGBTQ2S+ organizations to provide gender-based violence programming, as well as the funding to renew the 2SLGBTQI+ Community Capacity Fund.
These cuts are going to be devastating to queer and trans organizations at a time when they are most needed.All nicely and violently planned by the bigoted inhumane catholic church and the global resurgence of the Nazis Trans rights are under attack, and queer rights are next, if they’re not targeted already. Some of this sentiment is coming from the U.S., but some of it is also coming from places like Hungary, where Conservatives in this country have a glowing admiration.Thanks to hate mongering bigot Herr Hideous Harper, Chair of the anti everything not white christian raping male IDU
The LGBTQ+ scapegoating that is part of their authoritarian playbook is being used here, particularly in provinces like Alberta and Saskatchewan. Tough economic times generally breed even more scapegoating, and that is exactly what we are headed toward. Police-reported hate crimes on the basis of sexual orientation in Canada have seen a dramatic increase between 2020 and 2024, according to StatCan data, and slurs like “groomer” have become commonplace (which courts have finally started ruling are indeed slurs and not protected speech).
As the Trump administration in the U.S. has targeted Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, some corporations that operate in Canada have followed suit and ended their own programs in this country (which has included ending sponsorships in major Pride festivals across the country).
“If you oppose “DEI,” you should have to use the full phrase instead of the letters. Be brave and say, “I opposed diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
Bonus points if you admit which part you don’t like.
Making it an acronym transforms it into a thought-terminating cliche.
From now on, be proud of your opinions, but be specific. Let everyone know if it’s diversity you don’t like, or if it’s equity, or if it’s being inclusive.”
That would include any kind of data collection that goes along with these programs—the kind of data collection that WAGE should be doing as part of their commitment to Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus)—even if their implementation of that commitment has been found to be lacking by no less than the auditor general.
The fact that WAGE is gutting its capacity to collect this data, to apply it to government programs, and the fact that they are completely eviscerating the grants and contributions to programs that nobody else will cover, means that there will be consequences not too far down the road.
This brings me to the broader point in all of this—there wasn’t a need for this austerity, because we are not in a debt or deficit crisis in this country. It’s not 1995. Our fiscal situation was very easily manageable by the federal government, even if the Conservatives will misleadingly cry that government deficits are driving inflation. But it also shows that Carney, or members of his government, haven’t learned the lessons that austerity creates problems that take decades to undo.I think Carney knows damned well the harms his destruction to Canada is causing. I think it’s intentional – the better to keep his raping catholic church happy and the Nazis, and the quicker to destroy Canada and hand us over to Putin via the USA. Carney is an intelligent human, rare. I am sure with his four daughters he knows well that women are the courageous ones in our species, and are more willing than men to sacrifice everything standing up to abuses by the rich and powerful. Taking protections away for women, helps men abuse and murder more women and girls with more impunity, which will make destruction of our country by billionaire fuckers that much easier and quicker. Carney is an evil cowardly fuck. He can’t even find the courage to tell Canadians he is not a Liberal.We still haven’t undone the problems caused by the austerity of the early nineties. They also haven’t learned that austerity feeds populism, because both are inherently anti-government. Populism hurts marginalized communities, especially the queer and trans communities, who need government programs the most. There will be further repercussions from this austerity when it comes to gender-based violence, given that’s where a lot of the funding is lapsing.
It’s also a case where Carney, in full banker mode, is blinkered about the changed nature of the Canadian economy. The service economy far outpaces the resource economy these days, but that is where Carney is directing his economic plans, going so far as to employ a giant Henry VIII clause in his Building Canada Act that allows him to override other legislation, including Indigenous rights, for the sake of these resource projects. It’s the depreciation of human capital, which these programs at WAGE support, for the sake of these resource projects that overtly strip what economists term “the women’s state” for the sake of these male-dominated resource industries. Again, Carney has learned absolutely no lessons of the last three decades about how a more inclusive economy ends up being stronger and more resilient. Women, queer and trans people, people of colour, Indigenous people, all pay the price when the government ignores their needs in favour of the usual tropes that building more major infrastructure projects or digging another mine will solve our economic problems. These cuts to WAGE demonstrate that Carney doesn’t care enough about the actual people on the ground, and he’s asking for worse outcomes for marginalized communities and vulnerable people as a result.
@lalegault.bsky.social July 29, 2025:
I need Canadian women to pay attention after the announcement that Carney is cutting the WAGE ministry. We have warned everyone that this bill will be used to surveil and police women and now he is showing you who he is. Do not be complacent, we will end up like America #Canadasky
he is dismantling DEI (which is mentorship opportunities, leadership training, pay equity, the GBV strategy, rape crisis centres, women’s unions, women’s shelters etc. It’s everything, especially in Conservative provinces who don’t help fund these things.
@hilltimes.com:
As the Liberals focus on “nation-building” projects and commit to significantly increasing defence spending, women’s advocates are raising the alarm about the expiry of funds for programs that address violence against women and girls across Canada.
@thataverywoman.bsky.social:
“Expiry of funds” is a funny way of saying you don’t care about women and girls.
@marginsandroads.bsky.social:
@mark-carney.bsky.social This is not what I voted for.
No level of economic/military “security” will make Canada the prosperous and safe country you aim to build if you neglect the needs of those who are most vulnerable, yet possess the highest potential to build this country, women and girls
@man-o-man.bsky.social:
Mark Carney is a conservative.Worse, Carney is a racist misogynistic catholic conservative He is obviously not a liberal.
@imevolvingru.bsky.social:
Worldwide terrorism towards females and children, Canada must increase jail times 4 assaults against us.And must stop putting hideous pro rape, women/girl hating judges on the bench, and must fire all judges that let convicted rapists go free to protect the rapists’ careers and futures, even letting go free those rapists that admit to their crimes.
noticed commercials showing females as dumb,unatractive or sx suggestive etc,a bad light basically.usa -rump made all worse than ever,disgusting and malemade religions keep us as a mere rib ,wtf
@lalegault.bsky.social:
Carney lied to Canadians and women will die when he cuts this funding.
Human Rights Lawyer J R Howell has filed an official complaint with the United Nations seeking justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada #MMIWG
Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario identified as focal points for MMIW cases
Indigenous women can swiftly go from missing to appearing on sex ads, with Edmonton and Ottawa showing significant connections to the sex ad ecosystemHe’s cutting all their funding:
Organizations sound alarm as gender equality department faces 81% budget cut
I didn’t understand the #Québec based GardaWorld now contracted for American concentration camps & Canadian immigration detention facilities is a mercenary group that has been continually tied to human rights abuses, why are they allowed to operate in Canada? #cdnpoli #Canadasky
So why after the Epstein allegations came out against Prince Andrew, and he had been photographed with Ghislaine Maxwell would Carney allow Prince Andrew to pay for a dinner at the palace and attend with a known pedophile? #cdnpoli www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
Now Buckingham Palace admits: Prince Andy paid for bank bosses’ party
JPMorgan reaches $290 million settlement with Jeffrey Epstein victims
I want you to imagine how you would react if Pierre Poilievre was photographed with Ghislaine Maxwell and then had dinner with Prince Andrew before you reply to this thread, please.
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@constanceont.bsky.social:
*Anti-Woke, to me is anti-education, anti-decency, and anti-factual… Anti-Canadian, imo
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Rowan House Society urges federal government to protect gender equality funding by Emily Rogers, Aug 25 2025, High River Online
The Rowan House Society is advocating for continued funding to advance gender equality.
The Society has signed a joint statement released by the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women following projected budget cuts for the Department for Women and Gender Equality (WAGE).
The department is facing possible budget cuts of 80 per cent by 2027-2028.
According to the plan document, the change in planned spending is the result of changes in grant funding.
Starting in 2026-2027, funding is expected to decrease due to time-limited funding ending.
Linette Soldan, Rowan House Society Executive Director, explained that the organization is concerned about the projected funding cuts to WAGE Canada.
“For several years, funding provided by WAGE has enabled Rowan House Society to start up or run some of our programs and initiatives that help families in High River, Okotoks, and surrounding areas break the cycle of abuse, seek help early, and build skills for healthier, non-violent relationships,” Soldan said.
She added that funding cuts could impact programming and make it more challenging for families to find safety, access, and support to stop violence and abuse before it starts.
“We urge the Government of Canada to reconsider and commit to sustained funding so that adults and children impacted by abuse are not put at risk and have hope to live lives free of violence and abuse,” she said.
B.C. groups press federal minister on action against gender-based violence by Simon Little & Kristen Robinson Global News, August 26, 2025
B.C. groups fighting to end gender-based violence met with Canada’s minister for women and gender equality on Tuesday as they push for action on what they say is an epidemic of violence against women and girls.
The organizations included groups from rural and remote B.C., sexual assault centres, inner city services and girls’ right advocates.
“We’re a little bit nervous about where this country’s going around gender equality right now and addressing violence against women, the signals aren’t looking great,” said Angela Marie MacDougall, executive director of Battered Women’s Support Services.
2:31B.C. pushes for femicide offence
“We wanted to look in her eyes and to make sure that she understood what’s at stake so that she can go back to Ottawa and carry our voices forward.”
The meeting comes amid a string of high-profile cases of intimate partner violence in B.C., and across the country, including the murder of Kelowna’s Bailey McCourt, allegedly at the hands of her ex-husband.
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Those incidents have prompted calls for a distinct criminal offence for “femicide,” the intentional killing of women or girls with a gender-related motivation.
The groups pressed Minister Rechie Valdez on issues including rising femicide rates, housing insecurity and systemic failures to protect women from abusive partners and in the justice system.
Valdez said addressing violence against women is an issue to which she has a personal connection.
“I also lost someone in my family, so to all the women and girls out there who have experienced gender based violence, our government remains committed to continuing to fight against gender based violence,” she said.
“And how we’re doing that is through our national action plan to end gender-based violence. This is a 10-year commitment, we are three years into that commitment, we’ve invested close to half a billion dollars.”
4:50B.C. review warns of prevalence of unreported sexual violence
MacDougall said that even if the government sticks to its 10-year commitment, the plan will require an increase in funding, “and that’s something that we did not hear today.”
Sharon Gregson, B.C. spokesperson for the $10-a-Day Childcare Campaign, said the groups also pressed Valdez on its support for child care, something she said is critical both to gender justice and to keeping the province’s economy healthy.
She said advocates will be watching closely to see if Ottawa sticks to its commitments.
“There is a lot of room for improvement, and we were heartened to hear Minister Valdez say that the budget for women and gender equality in Canada is not being cut,” she said.
“So we’ll look forward to the federal budget and ensure that we still see that line item.”
Advocates say they also stressed the need for core federal funding to sustain anti-violence services and concerns about the impacts of resource extraction projects on communities, women and gender-diverse people.
NASTY LYING CARNEY SLASHES MEAGRE WAGE FUNDING BUT GLADLY GIVES POLLUTING POISONOUS OIL GAS AND FRAC INDUSTRY BILLIONS TO HELP IT DESTROY LIFE ON EARTH. CARNEY TAKES FROM THE POOR AND VIOLENTLY ABUSED AND RAPED TO GIVE TO THE PRIVILEGED PROTECTED RICH SELLING US LIES AND CON JOBS.
@brianplatt.bsky.social:
Energy Minister Tim Hodgson took a shot at Trudeau in a speech in Germany today: “Unlike the previous Canadian government, which closed the door to LNG exports, Prime Minister Carney’s government has opened it”
@shawnwalterquinlan.bsky.social:
Now try to get our LNG from Canada’s west to the east coast. No small feat, at the best of times.It’s economically unfeasible, never mind the massive harms to many communities, and air, water, land.
@kazkaz.bsky.social:
Maybe his plan is to turn Canada into a wasteland so we don’t get invaded?
Carney’s Energy Chief Rebukes Trudeau Over LNG Policy in Europe by Brian Platt, August 27, 2025, Bloomberg
Canadian Energy Minister Tim Hodgson said his government is taking steps toward exporting natural gas to Europe, and criticized former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for not making the same effort.
“The new Canadian federal government has made a conscious choice to re-center energy and critical minerals in how we think about not only our domestic affairs, but Canada’s place in the world,” Hodgson said in the prepared text of remarks he will deliver at the country’s embassy in Berlin.
His speech comes on the same day Mark Carney wraps up a trip through Europe that included stops in Poland, Ukraine, Germany and Latvia. The Canadian prime minister is trying to shore up relationships with European allies and work on defense and trade agreements in the face of the global tariff war launched by the US.
Hodgson’s speech promoted cooperation between Germany and Canada, including on green hydrogen and critical minerals. But it emphasized Canadian natural gas as a low-risk source of energy.
“Unlike the previous Canadian government, which closed the door to LNG exports, Prime Minister Carney’s government has opened it,” said Hodgson, a rookie politician who previously worked with Carney at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. “If the demand is here, and the infrastructure is built, Canada will deliver.”
The comments are the latest example of how Carney, despite coming from the same Liberal Party as Trudeau, has put a much stronger emphasis on conventional energy exports as a potential source of economic strength.
Canada in Europe: A Long Way to Go
The idea of shipping liquefied natural gas from Canada’s east coast to European markets has lingered for years, but made little progress. After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Germany searched for replacements for Russian gas and explored options with Trudeau’s government.
When then-German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Canada that summer, Trudeau told reporters the business case for shipping gas to Europe has always been difficult due to the fact Canadian gas fields are mostly located in the west, far away from Atlantic Ocean ports.
Those comments have often been criticized in the years since — though Trudeau also said at the time he was willing to expedite the regulatory process, if a private sector company came forward with a project.
Hodgson said proposals for gas exports to Europe are still in early stages and “no route is mapped out for sure.”
“But any proponent who comes forward with a project that features good economics and buy-in from their province and Indigenous people, we will take a good look at,” he said.
Canada has an LNG terminal on its east coast owned by Spanish energy firm Repsol SA, but it currently imports gas for markets in eastern North America. The company explored expanding it into an export facility, but scrapped the idea in 2023 after determining the pipeline tolls would have made the gas too expensive.
Hodgson and Carney have indicated that another project is on their radar now: using the northern port of Churchill, Manitoba, to ship LNG and other commodities through Hudson Bay and the Arctic Ocean.
However, the port is small, remote and locked in by sea ice for much of the year. Upgrading it would require major investment in new infrastructure, as well as icebreakers to allow for a longer shipping season.
Hodgson told reporters in Germany this week that Churchill’s port is currently “underutilized” but represents a “tremendous opportunity.” Provincial leaders in western Canada are enthusiastic about the concept.
“There seems to be a desire on the part of Germany to buy our natural gas,” Hodgson said. “And we have a desire from proponents, a province and First Nations to develop that for German customers.”
Developing Churchill’s port could unlock exports of LNG and critical minerals, along with creating economic opportunity for Indigenous people and diversifying Canada’s trade networks, Carney told reporters during his Europe tour.
“All of those elements are going to make the country stronger, make us more resilient, make us more prosperous,” he said.
Major projects office to launch this week, natural resources minister says, Government needs the new office in place before it can start approving new projects by Kyle Duggan, The Canadian Press, Aug 27, 2025
Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson says the federal government’s new major projects office will launch this week, a key element in Ottawa’s push to spur companies into building new large-scale infrastructure.
The Liberal government rushed its major projects bill through Parliament in June so it could speed up approval times for large industrial projects.
But under the new law, the government needs this office in place before it can start stamping corporate blueprints with Ottawa’s seal of approval.How fucking arrogant, ego based and stupid is that? So fucking anti-life, wanna rape earth, women and kids Religious Con Male.
Hodgson made his comments in a speech at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, where he said Canada is placing an emphasis on speed in getting new infrastructure built so the country can ramp up energy exports.
The minister made an aggressive sales pitch to German businesses to buy Canadian energy exports, such as liquefied natural gas and hydrogen.both of which are decrepit dying extremely polluting harmful industries that do not benefit Canadians, but do benefit Nazi USA/Israel, Putin, and the foreign rich.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said in Berlin on Tuesday that the government will start formally announcing new investments in port infrastructure in the next two weeks.