It's Just Money

Well, not the government's money:

The National Capital Commission spent over $8 million to replace a barn on the grounds of Rideau Hall with a “zero-carbon” storage building, according to records obtained by a taxpayer watchdog group.

The completed project is a two-level, partially heated storage and vehicle garage located on the site of a barn near the stables on the Governor General’s estate.

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Final design of the project was approved in June 2019, with construction taking place between July 2020 and the end of 2021.

The building, dubbed “the Barn,” is the National Capital Commission (NCC)’s first certified “zero-carbon building.”

Franco Terrazzano, federal director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, pointed out that the NCC could have purchased 139 Winding Way — a palatial home on the banks of the Rideau River and billed as “Ottawa’s most opulent home” — and still have money left over.

“I don’t know much about farming, but I’m pretty sure my buddies in Brooks (Alta.) can build a barn for a lot less than eight million bucks,” the Alberta-born Terrazzano said.

“It seems like the NCC goes out of its way to spend as much money as possible.”

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Big words from a Peter Pan who thought that exporting gas was not a good business case:

Cabinet will fight Alberta’s claim to more than half the Canada Pension Plan, ministers said yesterday. Warning of a drawn out pension fight followed a protest letter from the Prime Minister to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith: “I don’t buy the math.”

Check this out:

So, Albertans are not Canadians?

Right ...

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The Department of Environment acknowledges it did not count Canadians’ different rates of fuel use in calculating average costs of new climate change regulations. Conservative MP Dan Mazier (Dauphin-Swan River, Man.) said estimates ignored distinctions like urban versus rural fuel consumption: “There was no disputing they were advised these regulations would increase the cost of fuel.”

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Cabinet’s two billion trees program will not plant two billion trees, says the Department of Natural Resources “So why is it called the two billion trees program?” asked Conservative MP Michael Kram (Regina-Wascana): “Why not rename it the billion-and-a-half tree program?”

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The Commons ethics committee last night voted to summon Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne for questioning in an investigation of suspected “green-washing” involving federal subsidies. However the committee by a 7 to 4 vote rejected a Conservative request for all records concerning Sustainable Development Technology Canada: “There is a basic question of trust here.”