OTTAWA — Canada’s first major, nation-building project should be to dismantle the country’s major projects office.
That’s what policy watchers told the Wednesday, one day before Prime Minister Mark Carney will announce the first wave of national building projects.
“We don’t need politicians in Ottawa musing about which project they think is in the national interest, we need politicians to cut their taxes and red tape that roadblocks Canada’s natural resource development,” said Franco Terrazzano, federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
“ Canada doesn’t need politicians and government bureaucrats pretending they know which project is in the national interest — Canada needs politicians and bureaucrats to stop getting in the way with high taxes and onerous regulations.”
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