Cat@ponder.cat to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · edit-22 天前Canada OKs ‘Massive’ $20 Billion Loan for Trans-Mountain Pipeline.www.desmog.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up176arrow-down12
arrow-up174arrow-down1external-linkCanada OKs ‘Massive’ $20 Billion Loan for Trans-Mountain Pipeline.www.desmog.comCat@ponder.cat to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · edit-22 天前message-square22fedilink
minus-squarepsvrh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up65arrow-down1·2 天前So we have money for this, but can’t build public housing. Right. If oil is so profitable, let the oil companies foot the bill themselves.
minus-squarekat_angstrom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up34arrow-down1·2 天前Exactly this. All that “free market” talk always seems full of promise and idealism and then the government OKs subsidies like this and it’s just naked corporatism through and through.
minus-squareHellsBelle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 天前The feds bought the pipeline in 2018. There is no private ownership.
minus-squarekat_angstrom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 天前An important distinction. “Loan” feels like the wrong headline word to go with them; perhaps “budget” would be more accurate
So we have money for this, but can’t build public housing. Right.
If oil is so profitable, let the oil companies foot the bill themselves.
Exactly this. All that “free market” talk always seems full of promise and idealism and then the government OKs subsidies like this and it’s just naked corporatism through and through.
The feds bought the pipeline in 2018. There is no private ownership.
An important distinction. “Loan” feels like the wrong headline word to go with them; perhaps “budget” would be more accurate
.