ICBA’s Jordan Bateman and TheOrca.ca’s Maclean Kay break down the Kevin Falcon campaign launch, the state of the BC Liberal leadership race, the NDP’s US cruise ship misreads, and (of course) COVID-19.
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2014: for every dollar a 🇺🇸 company invested per worker, a 🇨🇦 company invested 87 cents.
2024: 54 cents.
That's not tariffs - it's a decade of bad decisions.
ICBA filed 15 fixes with Ottawa — under-a-year project approvals for everybody, a 10% cut to 149K federal rules, and
$650 BILLION in major projects on the books in B.C. and Alberta. Approvals that take 5 years. Mines that take 15.
ICBA's 2026 pre-budget submission to Ottawa: cut decisions to under a year — for every project, not just the ones Cabinet picks.