So on the way home from work yesterday I thought I'd tune into CJOB for a little dose of crazy. Well, Vic Grant came on and didn't disapoint.
Here's a link to the transcript:
http://www.cjob.com/blogs/ExcuseMe/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10042828
No, can anyone tell me what the heck he's talking about? It sounds sort of like he's advocating a private water utility but I can't tell. There's the obligatory random crazy attack on unions of course, but it has nothing to do with either the rest of the piece, or why people have issues with privatizing water and waste management. But that's a whole other post. What's confusing me here is that he seems to bash people for being scared of privatization, but then goes off about the environment and a billion dollar sewage upgrade, then goes back to the 'business plan' at the end. Is he saying the business plan is to privatize?
And I'm not being mocking or anything, I'm actually completely confused by what he's trying to talk about because it's all over the place. Because environmental aspects and provincially imposed sewage upgrades are entirely different topics from how the piece begins and ends. Private or no, the billion dollar upgrades would be required. So either we pay for them or we privatize the service and the company that buys it needs to recoup the billion dollars in extra expense. Last time I checked companies didn't eat the cost of anything. At least successful ones. And environmental controls placed on the service can easily be controlled if you have public ownership, not so much if it's private. So when I heard this my thought was that he started advocating a move to privatize, then spent most of the rest of the time giving examples of why it couldn't realistically be privatized at this point (poor market value due to excessive upgrade costs unless rates could be increased to recoup $1B or the government still paid for most of the upgrades, requirements for strict environmental controls), then ended by again saying it should be privatized.
Did anyone get what he was talking about?
Here's a link to the transcript:
http://www.cjob.com/blogs/ExcuseMe/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10042828
No, can anyone tell me what the heck he's talking about? It sounds sort of like he's advocating a private water utility but I can't tell. There's the obligatory random crazy attack on unions of course, but it has nothing to do with either the rest of the piece, or why people have issues with privatizing water and waste management. But that's a whole other post. What's confusing me here is that he seems to bash people for being scared of privatization, but then goes off about the environment and a billion dollar sewage upgrade, then goes back to the 'business plan' at the end. Is he saying the business plan is to privatize?
And I'm not being mocking or anything, I'm actually completely confused by what he's trying to talk about because it's all over the place. Because environmental aspects and provincially imposed sewage upgrades are entirely different topics from how the piece begins and ends. Private or no, the billion dollar upgrades would be required. So either we pay for them or we privatize the service and the company that buys it needs to recoup the billion dollars in extra expense. Last time I checked companies didn't eat the cost of anything. At least successful ones. And environmental controls placed on the service can easily be controlled if you have public ownership, not so much if it's private. So when I heard this my thought was that he started advocating a move to privatize, then spent most of the rest of the time giving examples of why it couldn't realistically be privatized at this point (poor market value due to excessive upgrade costs unless rates could be increased to recoup $1B or the government still paid for most of the upgrades, requirements for strict environmental controls), then ended by again saying it should be privatized.
Did anyone get what he was talking about?
