scoop

hand-held scoop

clam digger

electric dragline operator

earth scoop | animal-drawn shovel board | slip scraper | drag pan | fresno scraper

armed robbery | firearm robbery

backacter | backhoe shovel | dragshovel | trenching hoe

18 (1) Cost of special machine and heavy work equipment service shall include the cost of labour, material, depreciation, supplies and other costs incurred in maintaining and operating power shovels, scrapers, pile drivers, dredgers, ditchers, material loaders and similar equipment, and any amount paid to others for rent, operation and maintenance of such equipment.

18 (1) Cost of special machine and heavy work equipment service shall include the cost of labour, material, depreciation, supplies and other costs incurred in maintaining and operating power shovels, scrapers, pile drivers, dredgers, ditchers, material loaders and similar equipment, and any amount paid to others for rent, operation and maintenance of such equipment.

Direct federal spending, when we get into the shovels-in-the-ground mentality this isn't the first time, and I don't think anyone's clean on this one, because every party of every stripe in almost every government has used that argument in that exact language skips through planning and skips through regulatory process.

If you have a framework, if you have a proper plan that lets these people know because they can't decide what the most appropriate technology is for rural Alberta or for urban Montreal if you actually provide an energy plan that identifies, that understands the geography, understands the age and nature of the buildings and gets the right technology solutions, and you spend through those plans and allow the projects to flow through those plans with provincial and federal support, your shovels-in-the-ground criterion which I think was meant with the best of intentions to accelerate funding is not going to work.