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The following is the second section of a work I’ve been preparing for my main site . As rumours of the federal government proceeding with the externally-developed policy framework I have been researching, and because of the length the work has grown to, I decided to post the work in parts here as sections are completed.  ( Part 1 ) The May 19th announcement of the Task Force for a Resilient Recovery (TFRR) ended with, “The work of the Task force will conclude in July with the release of a final report,” but by August only a “ Preliminary Report ” had been shared, and that document is more of a mind mapping exercise than a reporting one. The mapping listed, as Funders, the Ivey, McConnell, Schad and Echo Foundations. The appearance of Ivey wasn’t unexpected as the task force included Bruce Lourie, who is the President of the Ivey Foundation and a key player in previous “green” campaigns including ending coal-fired electricity generation in Ontario and the Green Energy Act. The Ivey Foun...

The following is the beginning of a work I've been preparing for my main site . As rumours of the federal government proceeding with the externally-developed policy framework I have been researching, and because of the length the work has grown to, I've decided to post the work in parts here as sections are completed.   2020 is throwing a lot at us.  The pandemic is the feature event for most, but there’s no shortage of other issues long discussed on my blog re-emerging. I started writing in 2010, not long after the passage of the Green Energy Act (GEA) in my province of Ontario. The GEA was the cornerstone of a "building back better" recovery plan the last large economic downturn, and should therefore be a warning signal this crisis around. And yet... today many of the same people that lobbied for that failed experiment provincially have regrouped to push for a “resilient recovery” policy portfolio at the federal level. These weren’t good policies in 2010, and they ...