Ivison, NP: You couldn’t make this stuff up. On the day the Auditor General released a report blasting “incomprehensible failures” in the government’s capability to do much of anything, the Liberals announced that Ottawa is getting into the pipeline business.
Michael Ferguson’s report found there were fundamental failures of project management and oversight in implementing the Phoenix pay system; that Indigenous people had been let down yet again by their government; and that delays in decision-making by the public-private partnership building the Champlain Bridge replacement in Montreal had cost $500 million — money that, it turns out, could have been spent buying roughly 127 km of pipeline for the government.
Federal Conservative leader Andrew Scheer accused Justin Trudeau of using taxpayers’ money to buy his way out of his own failure. And there is something in that. If the Trudeau Liberals had not shut down all other options to move Alberta’s oil — by fiat, unachievable regulatory targets and a tanker ban — we wouldn’t be in this mess.
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