Edmonton Centre MP and Federal Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages Randy Boissonnault announced the $23.7 million is earmarked for the Blatchford district energy sharing system. Mayor Amarjeet Sohi said the money will be spent on installing an additional heat pump and auxiliary equipment, as well as funding the design and construction of a growing distribution piping network and sewer heat exchange energy centre.

There's no denying that Blatchford needs much help to fulfill its initial vision of recreating the old municipal airport property into a climate friendly model of urban development. So far Blatchford has fallen short of its objective, and investing more taxpayers' hard-earned dollars into it may prove to be a bad investment.

The announcement may have served the objective of getting Randy Boissonnault's name out of the news cycle because of his former business partner is being questioned by the parliamentary ethics committee about statements to that contradict public records. I'm just wary enough to think that Trudeau will use this Federal funding for his/the Liberal climate change agenda. It didn't take long for the huge signs to be erected.