“The payment of an extra $463 million to Irving Shipbuilding is to allow the firm to modernize its Halifax-area facilities so the company can build the Canadian Surface Combatants (CSC).”
#NSpoli #cdnpoli #Irvings #Oligarchs #Neoliberalism #CorporateWelfare #NoWar
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/analysis-irving-gets-463-million-more-from-taxpayers-for-troubled-warship-program

The #irvings are not the only family that sells #newBrunswick resources it's own!
We are also home to the $2.7 billion dollar Cooke Aquaculture, who are (apparently) one of the most successful fishing operations on earth.

https://www.intrafish.com/interview/glenn-cooke-his-growth-plans-his-disdain-for-private-equity-and-the-reason-he-wears-that-baseball-cap/2-1-1186678

When the #irvings were caught with BILLIONS of dollars flowing out of the province, ILLEGALLY, #blaineHiggs said this: "I don't think we can criticize someone for following the rules." 

#blaineHiggs works to protect corporate interests above all else.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/irving-offshore-revelations-higgs-no-policy-change-1.6639598

The show follows up the history of American malfeasance in foreign affairs with #CitizensUnited, Russian #oligarchs and, wait for it, the #Irvings.

The inference from these stories that democracy is being undermined in #canpol seems rather feeble.

(There are, to be sure, serious issues for #nbpol ; I lack the background knowledge to have an informed opinion.)