Why does government help strangle Canadian businesses?

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Port expansions further lock us into a fragile, energy-intensive system of globalized trade with many distant links in a chain we have no local control over. The federal government recently approved an expansion of the megaport on Robert’s Bank down in the Lower Mainland. The proponents were quick to heap praise. It will “bolster our national supply-chain resilience,” said Robin Silvester, president and CEO of the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority. How exactly? The port will do a number of things but first and foremost it will ensure those cheap imported goods get to your doorstep in less time and at...