“It’s a strange thing to find myself more shocked now than at things that the Harper government tried,” said Green MP Elizabeth May, moments before her audio was cut off for the vote to begin, sending the approved bill to the Senate for its final debate.
The law allows government to scrap almost any federal law or regulation standing in a chosen project’s way, and to pre-approve projects without any review or consent from First Nations. And once those decisions are made, they are final.
Cresting on a wave of Conservative and Liberal support, Bill C-5 pushed against fierce opposition from First Nations, the NDP, Bloc Québécois, Greens and environmental groups who say the law contravenes hard-won gains on Indigenous rights and environmental protection.
The trio [BC and ON equivalents too] of fast-track laws have been pitched as a salvo against U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and roiling economic uncertainty, though some have also noted their resemblance to Trump’s own deregulatory spree.
“It is really astonishing how quickly this bill has been drafted and then how quickly it is going through Parliament,” said West Coast Environmental Law staff lawyer Anna Johnston. “They’re talking about reinventing the decision-making and regulatory processes for major projects.”
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3 months in folks. This term is going to suck just as much as the Trudeau regime.
I have a feeling this will be the last time the Liberals are going to be in power for a long time. Trudeau was bad enough…but this is worse.
And remember: Carney was elected on a wave of anti-Trump and anti-conservative backlash. This is the Joe Biden of Canada; at this rate Carney will completely delegitimize the left (yes I know the Liberals aren’t leftist, that doesn’t matter) and Conservatives will cinch the next election like (or even more than) they were going to cinch this one. Y’all need to organize fast if you want to remain a democracy by 2035.
Trying to feel better knowing that PP would’ve been worse but no… This is just fucking awful. We were screwed either way.
I can’t say the Liberals have failed yet… but they are taking a very big risk here.
If this shoehorning in of legislation comes to bite them in the ass, and lawsuits (due to the government not living up to their obligations to First Nations as they said they would) cause the Liberals to fail on their fast-track promise, they’re going to be punished in the next election(s). The electorate in general are giving them some runway for a year to see results though.
God dammit. I told people on here how Carney was a bad idea and that I didn’t trust him.
I was right all along.
Even my parents, who always voted liberal, regretted their choice. They wished they had voted NDP.
Unfortunately, in Canada it has little to do with Carney himself, and more to do with keeping the Conservatives out of office. In my riding, it was either vote Liberal or let the Conservatives have the seat.
We desperately need proportional representation. Canada can’t keep going on flipping sides drastically every 10 years and adopting culture war bullshit all while both sidss point fingers at the other instead of actually creating new solutions to the biggest problems Canadians are facing.
In my riding, only God Himself would have had a chance if He wasn’t running for the conservatives.
Yep. Had the NDP been more popular we would likely have a Conservative government under Poilievre right now. We have a split vote on the left which makes strategic voting an unfortunate necessity.
This theory runs into some trouble when you realize the Liberals chose to campaign just as hard in NDP strongholds as they did in Conservative ridings. I will never advocate for “strategic” voting again after that.
