I doubt he would say so publicly anyway. Quebec is also building a significant amount of wind infrastructure and has been doing so for years now. It's not a new thing, and it's a major part of the HQ plan all along. Newfoundland should be as well, given its low cost and abundant wind resources.

From La Presse this morning
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No major obstacles is not the same as saying no major costs, which there surely will be, as was seen with Ontario's big reactor referbs (also New Brunswick)

Possibly, Quebec decommissioned its nuclear reactor a few years ago. The downside is always the same with nuclear: it's the most expensive way to generate electricity and leaves waste nobody wants to deal with. Also, Quebec will have a new gov next year, so who knows.

We have largely refused to even think about what that something is, and that's a major problem.

Yet those exports of oil will, in time, have to be replaced with something else

We can export lots of things. And Canada is a big electricity exporter, just ask Hydro Quebec. Plus, we have to decide how to power, literally, those export industries.

This feels to me like a technobabble budget, placing bets on tech whose prospects are iffy at best (AI, quantum computing, carbon capture, small modular reactors, stable coins(!?), etc.) while downplaying proven tech (wind, solar, battery storage, etc). I have very mixed feelings about this budget.

Also, different skills, this fixation on AI is absurd, there is no way it can deliver on all its claims or generate a return on the crazy levels of $ being plowed into it. It's become the buzzy 'new thing' without any real understanding of what it is and what it can or cannot do.

Almost $1B for 'AI' feels like fad chasing just before the bubble pops, badly. 4) We already have plenty of high-skilled talent in Canada; we just have been lousy at providing opportunities for them

3) Almost $1B for 'AI' feels like fad chasing just before the bubble pops, badly. 4) We already have plenty of high-skilled talent in Canada; we just have been lousy at providing opportunities for them

Some quick thoughts: 1) They are still chasing carbon capture as a technofix for climate, despite its never having been proven to work, let alone at the scale required. 2) Stablecoins, seriously? Adding a veneer of credibility to Ponzi schemes.

About 5 minutes after Adobe went all in on subscriptions, I never used Lightroom or anything else Adobe ever again. Still have a Lightroom 3 box on the shelf as a reminder to never, ever subscribe to software.