Bell: 'Enough is enough' — Premiers Smith, Moe all in for Carney's Bill C-5
On this one, she is with Carney.
'Being on Team Canada means these projects have to go ahead. We just can't keep saying No.'
But what about Smith pushing Carney to go ahead and get rid of what the Alberta premier calls the Nine Bad Laws. Both Smith and Moe agree the laws are bad.
Smith concedes Carney's plan for fast-tracking certain hand-picked nation-building projects is 'a necessary condition to jumpstart the investment in our country but it's not going to be sufficient.'
The premier also does figure it would have been pretty easy for Carney to deep-six a couple of bad laws. He didn't.
Smith says her government's negotiators will go through each bad law one by one by one over the summer with Carney's people.
Premier Moe adds how unwinding the Liberal bad stuff will take some time. He's looking at the fall to see that shoe drop. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe speaks to media following a talk hosted by Enserva alongside Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in Calgary on Monday, June 16, 2025. Brent Calver/Postmedia
At the request of some readers, here are some on the bad law list. Stick it up on your fridge.
The No More Pipeline law needs to go or be severely rewritten.
The tanker ban off the B.C. coast needs to be lifted. The cap on oil and gas emissions must be tossed. The net-zero power regulations need to be punted.
The mandate to only have electric vehicles on the new car lot in 10 years must be abandoned. End the designation of plastics as toxic.
That gives you the flavour.
As for Carney's nation-building projects law, Bill C-5?
The Bloc, the NDP, the one Green MP and one Liberal MP want to slow down the prime minister's lightning-fast plans.
Ditto for some Indigenous leaders and some talking heads, including some who say they are conservative.
The Conservatives are expected to vote with Carney.
Earlier this month, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Carney should just get rid of bad laws holding up projects instead of the government picking winners and losers.
'If you have a wall that's blocking everybody from getting where they need to go why would you say that only a certain group of people are allowed to go around the wall and the rest must stand there facing the wall. Why not knock down the wall?' asked Poilievre.
But the deep thinkers in Ottawa say the Conservatives will play ball with Carney.
Earlier in the week, Smith said when Carney talks about Canada being an energy superpower and Canada needing corridors to transport goods he talks about oil and gas or … er … conventional energy.
The premier sees a signal Carney is serious even if it ruffles some Liberal feathers.
'He's doing that on purpose. I'm pleased he's using some political capital.'
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