We knew that Mr. Fitzgibbon had a big head and that he could cut corners to speed up the completion of a project. What we didn’t know was that he would demonstrate it so well in the Northvolt project.
Indeed, less than two years after the elections, the government announced the largest investment of public money in a private project without having talked about it or validated it all during the electoral campaign.
Several journalists have tried to dispel the economic fog surrounding this project with their pertinent questions about the economic risks and the real benefits associated with it. In most cases, Minister Fitzgibbon simply ignored them.
We must believe that the journalistic investigation by Mr. Shields and Mr. Gerbet on environmental aspects is much more disturbing since the minister went on the attack after making fun of their work. Notice that he insinuates that these two journalists, whose integrity has never been questioned, are activists. Activists? Because they ask questions and try to explain how a project of this scale could have been removed from a BAPE hearing.
You will agree that coming from someone who subscribes to the Ethics Commissioner’s investigations, it takes nerve to make these accusations.
No, this whole story looks more like a super majority government which has forgotten that in a democracy we must explain in order to convince. Indeed, it smacks of panic at the CAQ. If ignoring, mocking and attacking is no longer enough to move the Northvolt project forward, it is already lost.
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