Mike De Souza
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News, Energy
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September 15th 2016
The top NEB bureaucrat joked at a staff meeting, after the botched hearings, about whether the regulator’s employees should be armed with tasers when approaching critics at public hearings.
The minister’s view that it’s time to hit the reset button flows not only from a concern for “due process”, but also from concern for the well-being of a sizeable chunk of Canadian citizenry.
Public consultations will take place at a later date, but there has already been a flurry of negative reaction to online depictions of the planned expansion.