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Originally Posted by Bcasey25raptor
Seriously, just stop it, why would a company openly say it wasn't the new government if it was actually the government?
Petronas would actually benefit from blaming the new government, anything else is naivety.
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The more likely answer is that they were already looking for an excuse to bail, but it would be bad optics to blame the NDP, even though it clearly is, given the timing.
There will be plenty of other projects that costs will be assigned to the NDP for project terminations even if they haven't gestured towards doing so. Yet.
If the Bridge replacement plas gets scrapped, that will be entirely on the NDP. If Surrey proceeds with building a Light Rail boondoggle, that will be on the NDP too. Basically anything the NDP does to stop or change a project that the contracts have already been signed, will now be blamed on the NDP even if the business case was anything else.
In most cases, a government incurs more costs and delays by gesturing that they will cancel or change the scope of a project of the previous government has already committed to by doing the engineering and environmental studies. I have no confidence in the NDP being around long enough to do something as ambitious as the Millenium Line again but I would rather see the NDP commit to Skytrain extensions already waiting than try to do anything ridiculous.