Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his decision to use taxpayer money to buy Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline and its troubled expansion project for $4.5 billion was made after the company told his government that the project was a "risky" investment.
Neither probe into federal Indigenous-oriented programs and services demonstrated that the government was adequately reporting on progress, measuring outcomes or using data to improve programs, Auditor General Michael Ferguson concluded.
Auditor General Michael Ferguson's probe of the Phoenix pay system concluded it was "an incomprehensible failure of project management and oversight" where those in charge prioritized budgeting over functionality, ignored warning signs and provided an inaccurate picture to higher-ups.
Finance Minister Bill Morneau says the government will buy the existing Trans Mountain pipeline from Kinder Morgan at a price of $4.5 billion. He refused to explain that $4.5 billion simply buys Ottawa the rights to what exists today — a 65 year old pipeline
“So many decisions about technology are made without our consent,” she told the C2 Montreal conference. “We need to better understand the ethical constraints and moral implications of the technology we’re using. Our devices don’t necessarily work for us. They work for the manufacturers, they work for the advertisers. They are waiting to be compromised if we’re not careful."
As Bill McKibben told me recently, seated on Burnaby Mountain where we were sheltering in the shade of a Douglas fir on a blazingly hot May day, "Physics is remarkably disinterested in how the economy is doing right now, or where in the election cycle we are."
Premier Rachel Notley has formally apologized for Alberta's role in the '60s Scoop, and although survivors say that doesn't close the book on one of Canada's darkest episodes, they say it does open a new chapter of reconciliation and healing.
