I find that interesting, because let's look at Northern Pulp in Nova Scotia, where the company was given an $85-million holiday from paying the money they owed to the people of Nova Scotia. They failed to pay $2.5 million in special pension payments. In December 2021, they launched a lawsuit against the people of Nova Scotia to the level of $450 million for “indemnified losses” because their plant in Boat Harbour was shut down due to pollution. A report recently said that Northern Pulp's mill there exceeded the federal threshold of emissions by 100,000%. I've never heard that number used anywhere.
How could a company that is suing the people of Nova Scotia, that has such a bad environmental track record, assure the federal government that they are going to abide by all of Canada's laws and be good corporate partners?