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Want to know why federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna turned down the bulk of important amendments to the Liberal government’s Bill C-69 – the pipeline assessment legislation that will make approval for new projects so complicated it has been dubbed the No More Pipelines Act?
McKenna rejected nearly 80 amendments – the ones designed to give investors confidence they could again pour tens of billions into Canada’s economy – because (get this) she sees it as her duty to protect Canadians from the oil and gas industry.
It is not her No. 1 priority to protect Canada’s environment from reckless development. Not from a few unscrupulous oil companies who might ignore environmental and Indigenous concerns.
Nope. McKenna believes her job is to smear a whole industry by claiming it is, in its entirety, a threat to all Canadians.
Can you imagine a federal Liberal minister saying she had to protect Canadians from Quebec’s asbestos or aerospace or dairy industries? Or Ontario’s manufacturers? Or B.C.’s timber industry?
Of course not. So what fantasies about good versus evil – what cartoon caricatures – must McKenna have imbued to think the oil industry is especially and inherently evil?
One of the amendments McKenna flicked off with the back of her hand would have limited her discretionary power to reject new projects even after they had been approved by a new federal assessment panel.
That’s one of the biggies scaring away investment – on average about $50 billion a year is being lost in Canada by Liberal “green” policies.
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See Also:
(1) Trudeau searching for an enemy to demonize
(2) McKenna’s ludicrous promise on carbon pricing
(3) Trudeau and McKenna are the ones endangering unity, not the premiers
(4) Deeply flawed soda tax rife with unintended consequences
(5) Considering How Corrupt The System Has Become, We Can’t Trust Elections Canada
