Not sure what is unusual about Canada investing in things we want to get done too.
Canada doesn't have domestic equivalents...
This is simply free money given to companies owned by politically connected people. It's marketed as helping "clean energy" or so they more easily jam it down the taxpayers throats.
In the same way that we invest in healthcare and invest in education...
Just because you cannot easily quantify a monetary return, that doesn't mean that it's not an investment...in my opinion
This is a taxpayer funded blank check for politically connected people to spin up private companies and risklessly get rich. The solution is simple: Give the taxpayers equity in the companies.