Here we fucking go. We are now fully in the hands of a trickle down asshole who is going to sell our public goods based on the lie that the private sector is fundamentally more efficient. And the worst part is better than half the Liberal voters will clap like seals as long as the guy doing Reaganomics is wearing their jersey.
However, a senior government official, not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed that the potential sale of federal assets like airports is a way of financing the new wealth fund, a point that Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne, in an interview with CBC after tabling the spring update, confirmed.
Oh my god. So our "sovereign wealth fund" which is definitely named to steal a bit of the shine off the wildly successful Norwegian sovereign wealth fund, is actually the exact opposite of that fund. Where the Norwegian model used profits from nationalized industry to create an investment fund it could put towards the national interest, we are creating a fund where we sell off public assets to create a pool of money we can shovel into private interests.
I've always thought that combining geothermal power with Dutch vertical farming would go a long way towards making much more of Canada agriculturally viable. This would help solve the food security issues experienced in the north and also help with solidifying Arctic sovereignty in a more effective way than military bases, which is to say making a larger human footprint than ~130k people spread across three huge territories viable.