Pipelines, energy and natural resources

[daftandbarmy]

Carney and the environment minister can and the stroke of a pen issue exemptions to the tanker ban. No vote in parliment needed, no law changes needed, they can just do it. They can then get around the province by doing a federal environmental review to by pass the province via the one review law. So then so long as they do proper consultations with FN. BC can smoke it

The Eby government, and Eby himself, are at great peril of being erased from the political map pretty quick. Just watch what starts to happen after the Conservatives elect a party leader next week..

My untutored guess is that Carney is waiting for the BC NDP government to get kicked out, hopefully within the next year, then work with the BC Conservatives to get it done. In the meantime, like he says, he'll focus elsewhere.

Much easier to let the locals do your dirty work for you before swooping in to save the day.

 

[lenaitch]

That is the way it is supposed to be. Some view it as a complete veto.

And there is no guarantee that "some" are not wrong.

We have legislated the principle of 'free, prior and informed consent' from the UN declaration on the rights of indigenous persons into Canadian law, but it really hasn't been tested. On its face, it sure looks like a veto to me. and no doubt would be argued as such. The government can dance around it, work within it or repeal it; all have costs. I suspect most FN groups have it framed on the wall.