Former Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall has compared the government’s environmental assessment bill to kindling, fuelling the flames of Western alienation, and its oil tanker ban to lighter fluid. “The government calculus is bad news, bad news, good news and then get out of town,” said one senior Conservative. Western premiers and the oil industry argued that the legislation, if passed as originally envisaged, would create greater regulatory uncertainty and hit investor confidence. Those amendments were part of the package of measures sent from the Senate to the House late Thursday. But it will become clear next week that not all the amendments will make it through the House.

Source: National Post June 06, 2019 23:37 UTC