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Originally Posted by scooby074
Federal...Provincial... Doesnt matter. Irving doesn't need money from ANYBODY.
RyeJay. Well put. I know the reasons.. my question was more a rhetorical "Why".
Frankly it sickens me when NS needs so much to hand over cash to one of the richest families in Canada. I laughed at the comment from one of the Irvings that the shipyard would have been turned to condos if they didnt get the money  Irving wanted this contract. They would have went for it with or without government money, but if you can play hardball and get some free government cash, why not, eh?
Even Michelin, over its 45 year history, has only received 1/2 that (not that I necessarily agree) and has probably employed almost as many. Its a huge sum.
Besides badly needed infrastructure, this money could have been used to lure other large employers.. A greater win for NS. I'm scared we have put too much into the "Ships Start Here" basket. We should have used the money to diversify.
SSH wont be Nova Scotia's saving grace. It is a help for sure, but we need more. |
To me this was a no-win situation for Dexter. Had he not agreed to this, and instead the news article this week had come out saying "Shipbuilding Contract Lost Because of Refusal by NDP to back Infrastructure Grants: Irving" I GUARANTEE that there would be tons of posts on this forum about how this shows that Dexter has to go and this just shows what happens when you elect an NDP government.
More than anything, the fact is no matter what party we elect they are all fundamentally the same, because they are driven by the same root need to get re-elected. Hence the reason why the nominally socialist/unionist provincial NDP provides forgivable loans to a corporation (same as the PC and Libs did before them), and the reason why the nominally small- government Conservatives run years of massive program expansion and spending (as have previous Liberal governments in the past). The only people who believe otherwise are party zealots who can rationalize everything away by thinking that whatever their party does is always correct and what the other parties do is always wrong.