John Robson: Oh look. It’s reality. Warren Buffett just pulled Berkshire Hathaway’s $4 billion stake from a $9 billion Quebec LNG project because of “political uncertainty” in Canada, a.k.a. lawless blockades and a regulatory process that’s all maze and no cheese. Suddenly our larky mishandling of public policy has real consequences. We lose money, energy, jobs and hope.
For years we’ve cheerfully accepted cheerful assurances that “the environment and the economy go hand in hand” unless you ask awkward process questions. And cheerful platitudes about Aboriginal reconciliation again wilfully light on details. Or reality.
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