Letter: Does anybody remember the Conservative-SNC Lavalin scandal?
Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo Conservative MP Cathy McLeod said she deplores the actions of Prime Minster Justin Trudeau in the SNC-Lavalin scandal.
Is she joking?
Some of us remember the real scandal, when then-prime minister Stephen Harper agreed to sell the reactor division of the country’s billion-dollar crown corporation, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., to the private firm SNC-Lavalin Inc.
Canadian taxpayers weren’t guaranteed any money from that sale.
SNC-Lavalin gave the Harper government $15 million and the Harper government gave SNC-Lavalin $75 million.
Canadian taxpayers ended up paying $60 million for the privilege of no longer owning that chunk of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., while SNC- Lavalin got the lion’s share of the nuclear technology company’s $1.1 billion worth of assets — including land, buildings and tools.
We, on the other hand, were stuck with all of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.’s $4.5-billion worth of liabilities.
Linda Davidson
Kamloops
https://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/op...e-conservative-snc-lavalin-scandal-1.23924272
OH CLIFFY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU????????????????????????????
I am sure you must have caught MALARIA....................................
because you are NOW BABBLING IN DELIRIUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What Harper SOLD was a MONEY PIT full of grossly ENTITLED civil service union HOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even worse - for Cdn tax payers is the HOGS were DEMANDING ever more heaps of gravy..............................
in return for their "efforts" to SELL OBSOLETE CDN TECHNOLOGY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Cdn Candu reactors were OUT OF DATE and rather PRIMITIVE compared to the STATE OF THE ART REACTORS.................
being sold by France, Britain and United States!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those countries forged way ahead of Canada thanks to their efforts to develop nuclear power FOR SUBMARINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For those climbing into a HUGE mechanized sewer pipe and planning to spend a MONTH UNDER WATER........................
mechanical reliability is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL for personal safety!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In addition silent running is also ESSENTIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This compares SHARPLY to the standard wheezing asthmatic Candu reactor operation...............................
which typically EMITS THREE HUNDRED PERCENT MORE TRITIUM than is even permitted in Europe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What Harper SOLD OFF was any further tax payer responsibility for OBSOLETE AND UNWANTED TECHNOLOGY.......................
AND he DUMPED the Candu civil service HOG CONNECTION to the costly GRAVY TRAIN AS WELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOOD RIDDANCE TO CANDU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That Candu technology was obsolete for producing electrical power cleanly and safely.............................
BUT as India proved- Candu technology WAS GOOD ENOUGH to produce FISSIONABLE MATERIAL.............................
FOR ATOMIC BOMBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In related news- our Candu HOGS TRIED AND FAILED ..............................
to build a replacement for the ANCIENT Chalk River reactor that produces one third of the medical isotopes for the planet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES - our HOGS SPENT A BILLION DOLLARS to produce a USELESS RATS NEST of rusting pipes........................
that WILL NEVER PRODUCE a single isotope!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And Harper FIRED the Candu head honcho for being such a wasteful ASSHAT.....................................................
While HOGS whined that Harper was BIGOTED against them..................................
while at the same time HOGS IGNORED the fact that the ENTIRE budget had been put into building the FAILED NEW REACTOR.....
and the Chalk River reactor WAS LEFT TO ROT OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hence that sudden world wide SHORTAGE of medical isotopes as Chalk River faded off line...........................
until HOGS made a mad rush to put the RELIC back together again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Chalk River reactor dates from WW2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chalk River dates from the days of the Manhattan Project - to produce the worlds FIRST atomic bomb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is THAT ANCIENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And Chalk Rover reactor is the most sophisticated technology Candu CLODS can handle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Which is why the Ontari-owe Bruce Nuclear power station is has RETIRED French, British and Yankee submariners......................
in KEY POSITIONS to oversee Cdn Candu CLODS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And it was LIE-berals who recognized that Candu Clods could NO LONGER be trusted..........................................
to operate Ontari-owe nuclear reactors on their own!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!