Here we go again

As I have been banging on about for years, the predictable is happening.  In spite of Carney's magic "Major Projects Office" and promise of "building things at rates never seen before", the blockades have started:  

The Indigenous are now going to court to block everything.

Well, of course they are.  Their funding does not depend on any major -- or minor -- project getting done; they get their money regardless.  Were it otherwise, projects would be humming along.

Was this predictable?  Well, of course.  Carney tried an end run by passing another fast-track bill, but that too is running up against legal challenges in court.  Even PCO Clerk Michael Sabia has said that such court challenges mean decades lost -- not months or years, decades!

The Indigenous claim that meaningful consultations have not been carried out.  Will any consultations ever be meaningful for them?  Their lawyers just continue to drag things out for years.  And why not?  They get big bucks for these cases.

So, as I've said many times, that's done-and-dusted for Carney's big visions and major projects.

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On another Indigenous file, the search of the Winnipeg landfill for the remains of four Indigenous sex workers has at last been halted.  Two sets of remains have been found, but sense has filtered into the thick and deluded heads of the burghers of Manitoba:  The other remains will lie where they are.

Frankly, although Wab Kinew called any objections to the search "racist", these women knew the perils their profession entailed.  They risked their lives every time they went to work.  They must have known where they might end up and I doubt they would have expected the city and province to spend millions searching for them.

What did this all cost?  $18.4 million.

When Oh when will the Indigenous start trying cooperatively to build Carney's "Canada Strong?"  Sorry, rhetorical.  Never.