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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tours the Stellantis Windsor (Chrysler) Assembly plant in Windsor, Ont. on Jan. 17. Deborah Yedlin is the president and chief executive officer of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce. Much was discussed on the pancake and beer circuit during this year’s Calgary Stampede, including the strike at the Port of Vancouver, concerns over the timing and content of the clean electricity regulations and emissions cap – as well as the federal government’s subsidies to both Volkswagen VWAGY +0.32%increase and Stellantis STLA-N unchno change for their Ontario electric-vehicle battery manufacturing facilities. The combined incentives, along with the Ontario government’s commitment, come to almost $29-billion – more than twice the bailout for the auto sector in 2008. That irked many at the Stampede. Suffice to say it would be hard to find an equivalent announcement by the federal government in the West, even though there are initiatives that are ready to move forward, such as the proposed carbon capture and storage project (CCS) by the Pathways Alliance , which has been under way for more than two years and follows decades of industry investment in emissions reduction. The Pathways project, developed by the six oil sands companies, would […]
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