Just like electric vehicles and solar farms, the bare bones of a large building can be environmentally friendly if constructed with certain supplies, and supporters of a new Minnesota law hope it spurs more use of cleaner materials for big projects. This year, Minnesota adopted the Buy Clean Buy Fair Act. It initiates a process for requiring certain state construction projects, such as a government building larger than 50,000 square feet, to be built or renovated with steel, aluminum and concrete materials leaving less of a carbon footprint. .
Bloc Québécois MP Monique Pauzé blasted the federal government in question period after a report forecasted roughly $17 billion of Trans Mountain’s public debt will be forgiven.
Finance Canada won’t confirm whether it will consider forgiving Trans Mountain’s massive public debts at the expense of taxpayers, despite ample indications that loan forgiveness is inevitable.
MPs fired scathing remarks at Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Thursday over the federal government’s decision to put $10 billion in taxpayer dollars on the line to finance the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.