Carneys umstrittene Hauptprojekte Bill Clears Committee | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/major-projects-bill-passes-clears-committee-1.7565285
Carneys umstrittene Hauptprojekte Bill Clears Committee | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/major-projects-bill-passes-clears-committee-1.7565285
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Well, the duty to consult is in the Constitution and cannot be overridden by statute. Streamlining approvals, assuming consultations with First Nations affected by the projects has happened, doesn’t mean we are violating Aboriginal Title (or frustrating outstanding claims).
Especially if the FNs are equity partners in the projects and will gain a permanent stream of profits and, hopefully, jobs, of their own accord.
We need to get projects built faster in this country. It’s ridiculous how long major projects take to get started and how long they take to get finished. So hopefully, this bill can help with that because if we want to get our economy on track, getting major projects off the ground faster is a part of how we do that.
Of course it did. They weren’t actually interested in listening to any feedback. It was a requirement to rush through and pay lip service to, nothing more. Nothing will stop it. Until it hits the courts. It’s such an extreme overreach. To be clear, I have no issue with trying to speed up the process. That was supposed to be through things like reducing redundancy, overlapping steps, etc. Not completely ignoring any law that gets in your way. We have these environmental protections for a reason. And even if we could trust them not to a abuse it, which I don’t think we can, I sure as hell don’t trust Conservatives not to if they were in charge.
I truly hope Carney can mend fences with the Indigenous communities after this.
In other circumstances I might have been opposed to this bill, but I haven’t forgotten how the entire world economy was whiplashed by just one country deciding it didn’t need allies anymore.