Feds won’t explain claim pipeline expansion will raise $500M in tax revenue
British Columbia-based economist Robyn Allan, who is skeptical about
the benefits of the expansion project, said she has not been able to get
the government to explain the figure for months and is accusing the
government of obstructing the information because the analysis won’t
hold up to scrutiny.
the benefits of the expansion project, said she has not been able to get
the government to explain the figure for months and is accusing the
government of obstructing the information because the analysis won’t
hold up to scrutiny.
“If they can’t tell you how it was derived it really begs the question if there is any substance to it at all,” she said.
She
is also demanding the government tell Canadians what the expansion is
going to cost to build. The last estimate was $7.4 billion but that
figure is now several years old and hasn’t been updated since the
federal government bought the pipeline.