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I'm under no illusions that this will change any minds, or even that people will actually watch the thing, but this is a good debate between both sides of the "Carney's playing 3-D chess" argument.

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[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Yeah but this isn't cheap, he isn't just "simply letting Smith try and fail", he's committing federal funding for that folly. So it's not that "smart", as if it would cost nothing to say "yeah sure go ahead", he's willing to throw money into the fire to build the pipeline, and the pipeline doesn't really need to be necessary to be built, it just needs funding and the contractors to run the pipes.

The only way he "wins" this game is in the case where the pipeline actually doesn't get built, but I wouldn't bet on that, regardless of the pipeline being necessary or a good investment. Also, if the pipeline doesn't get built, does BC still get the funding for all that good stuff? If so, then yes that's maybe a good gamble.