Ottawa, ON – The Liberals claim their caucus cannot support a motion on Carney’s pipeline agreement because it only mentions the pipeline he committed to. That’s why, in the spirit of collaboration, Conservatives will amend the motion to add even more language straight out of the Liberals’ own MOU on private funding, Indigenous equity, engagement with British Columbia and greenlighting the Pathways project.
The full text of the amendment is below:
That the motion be amended by inserting after the word “including” the word “(i)” and by adding after the words “Indigenous peoples” the following:
“(ii) Green lighting the world’s largest carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) project for the purpose of making Alberta oil among the lowest carbon intensity produced barrels of oil in the world.”
(iii) providing meaningful opportunity for Indigenous rightsholders to participate in consultation processes and economic opportunities through Indigenous ownership, partnerships and benefits,
(iv) engaging with British Columbia immediately in a trilateral discussion on the pipeline project, and during the potential development and construction of the bitumen pipeline referred to in the MOU, and to further the economic interests of B.C. related to their own projects of interest that involve the province of Alberta, including interties, and Canada working with B.C. on other projects of national interest in their jurisdiction”.
After a decade of the Liberals blocking every project under the sun, Canada needs a pipeline to the Pacific to make our country more prosperous and self-reliant. Creating new markets with billions of customers would not only bring good-paying jobs for Canadians; it would boost the power of the loonie and restore powerful paycheques for families.
Now, after eight months of promising to “build Canada into an energy superpower,” Liberals are lining up to oppose a pipeline that will make us less dependent on the Americans and more self-reliant by exporting low-emission Alberta bitumen to key Asian markets. Carney has been saying he will get a pipeline built when he’s in Alberta, but tells his caucus and British Columbians that “if BC doesn’t want it, it’s not going ahead.”
Enough Liberal games – it’s time to put up or shut up. Carney and his caucus have a straightforward decision: Do you support a pipeline to the Pacific or not?
There is still time for Liberals to back their own deal and support building a pipeline, but Canadians are right to be skeptical after the Liberals continue to press for a BC veto over any project. Victoria MP Will Greaves stated definitively, “I have heard from my constituents on this today and for several months. They, like me, are decisively not in support” of the pipeline.
The Carney Liberals must keep their promise to Canadians to “build baby build,” vote to support a pipeline and unblock billions of dollars in private sector investment. Conservatives, along with millions of Canadians, want to see shovels in the ground that will make our country strong, self-reliant and sovereign. It’s the Liberals’ chance to show they agree with the Prime Minister’s commitment to build Canada strong.