Madam Speaker, this is no time to celebrate. The Canada-Alberta oil deal announced yesterday is climate betrayal.
We were worried that the Liberals might announce one new pipeline in the west. Instead, they announced that there could be several, in addition to the Trans Mountain expansion, to extract at least 1.4 million more barrels of oil per day. The Liberals are also openly threatening to impose their oil fantasy on British Columbia in one of the worst documented cases of predatory federalism. This is exceptionally aggressive, in terms of both climate change and respect for the provinces.
How can elected officials who claim to be progressive—