What are ‘nation-building projects’ anyway?

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What are ‘nation-building projects’ anyway?

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Anne Lindsey - Friday, Jun. 13, 2025 - Wpg. Free Press

EXCERPT: "Oil, gas and nuclear projects are more properly “nation destroying” projects. Ask any of the First Nations currently evacuating their homes and territories as climate change creates prime conditions for out-of-control fires.

It’s unlikely the PM will meet with civil society groups (though we did ask). Will he meet with and more importantly, hear the concerns of, First Nations worried that “fast tracking” impact assessments will only run rough-shod over their rights and lands? As Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Derek Nepinak put it “We need to talk about these issues collectively… our inherent rights, treaty rights and human rights are at issue…”

Also at issue: our children’s future. How is it that we can be at this point in history where we know without a doubt what the impacts of climate change are — and yet our governments seem prepared to invest and go whole hog into the very same industrial development schemes that created the problem in the first place? If it’s true as the International Energy Agency has stated that countries will be seeking non-fuel-dependent sources of energy and actually winding down fossil fuel infrastructure by 2030, why would Canada spend crucial resources (our money) on exactly these fuel dependent technologies? (For the record, nuclear is dependent on uranium and therefore not renewable). Can you say, “stranded assets”? . . . ."

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