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Poilievre vows to repeal environmental assessment law to fast-track resource projects (www.nationalobserver.com)
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Aly Hyder Ali, oil and gas program manager at Environmental Defence, says the Impact Assessment Act (which was brought in through Bill C-69 in 2019) is one of Canada’s most essential environmental laws. It ensures thorough project evaluations before major infrastructure, like pipelines, LNG projects and mines, move forward. Repealing the act would gut federal oversight, allowing fossil fuel companies to push projects through without proper scrutiny, he warns.

“Of course, oil and gas companies would rather see their projects get rubber-stamped, than have them be properly passed,” Ali said. “It is an extremely short-sighted move that prioritizes the profits of wealthy fossil fuel and resource extraction corporations over Canada's economic and environmental stability.”

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[–] Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 4 points 21 minutes ago

As somebody who works in industry... I'm pro-environmental assessment law.

Any large projects should be assess appropriately to keep the public/workers safe and keep pollution down to a minimum. We are not living in the 1950s anymore.

[–] Global_Liberty@lemmy.ml 1 points 48 seconds ago

He and Musk will Make Pollution Great Again.

[–] Bublboi@lemmy.ca 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Bring pollution home.

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 5 points 11 hours ago

Retirement for the environment

[–] MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago

And pave the way for an American takeover of Canada.

Fick you peepee.

[–] VeryInterestingTable@lemm.ee 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

So the question is, why does he hate Canada so much? Is that what years of opposition do to a man? Why not just take your 25 millions and fuck off to the USA already? I guess it's not enough peepee wants more.

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

https://pierresrecord.ca/

  • Received a government pension at 31, then raised the retirement age on hard-working Canadians
  • Defined marriage as a union between ‘one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others’ (in front of his gay parent)
  • Visited and courted far-right extremist groups
  • Said Indigenous Peoples needed to learn the value of hard work more than they needed compensation for residential schools
  • Worked to bring American-style, anti-union laws to Canada
  • Said he’d use the notwithstanding clause, overriding Canadians’ rights
  • Committed to free votes, allowing his MPs to bring forward anti-abortion legislation

Timbit Trump has had a terrible history as MP, I don't want to see him as PM.

[–] KanataLemmy@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 day ago

Doing a great job as a far right nutbar cosplayer.

[–] BookSnob@lemmy.ca 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Someone needs to Canadian Luigi him.

[–] 7rokhym@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 minutes ago

Heavens no. Hopefully his support continues to wane, he loses the election, and we forget all about Canada's little PP.

[–] AlolanVulpix@lemmy.ca 5 points 19 hours ago

If we had proportional representation, we wouldn't even be concerned about this kind of thing: !fairvote@lemmy.ca.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 day ago

PP is out of touch…

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Basically mirroring Trump in every bullet point of his plan.

Is his plan project 2025?

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Is this question rhetorical?

[–] Punchshark@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago

CANADA DOESNT NEED A SMALL pp

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So, more polution, less protections? What a dumbass.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

Oh would you look at that: mini-maga PP promotes deregulation as a “solution” to the problems caused by Trunp tariffs and the US trade war, imitating the exact policies and playbook of the US. Fuck off PP. Fuck off Trump.

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

He doesn’t have any ideas beyond selling stuff in the ground to increasingly hostile buyers and in markets on a steady decline in face of renewables.