Federal Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi has defended Bill C-69, the proposed replacement for Canada’s environmental impact assessment process, by hailing the greater degree of regulatory certainty it would bring. His various approbations of the bill are directly contradicted by industry groups, regulatory lawyers and many Canadian First Nations. More serious still is what Bill C-69 and yet another parliamentary peach, Bill C-48, the B.C. C-48 seeks to stop the export of Western Canadian oil, notionally to protect the pristine West Coast from oil tankers, ironically while tankers from Alaska sail southward past that coast to Washington and California. Then again, these waterways need to be open to oil tankers bringing foreign oil into Canada … because we can’t build any pipelines to move our own oil across the country.

Source: National Post May 30, 2019 17:02 UTC