Poilievre to force vote on motion about Liberal support for pipeline
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Liberal MPs will be forced to reaffirm their commitment to a new pipeline to the West Coast and a possible overriding of the B.C. tanker ban under the Alberta-Ottawa energy deal.
An effort by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to force the Liberal government to reaffirm its commitment to a new pipeline to the West Coast will face a debate and recorded vote in the House of Commons on Tuesday.
The motion also seeks to get a commitment from the Liberals to override the northern British Columbia oil tanker ban if necessary in order to get that pipeline built, despite opposition from Coastal First Nations and the B.C. government.
It directly cites language in the memorandum of understanding signed between Ottawa and Alberta last month that sets the stage for a bitumen pipeline that will increase oil exports to Asia from a yet-unnamed deep-water port in B.C.
The agreement includes a federal commitment to “enable” such a project, “including if necessary through an appropriate adjustment to the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act.”
The Conservative motion quotes that language and adds “while respecting the duty to consult Indigenous Peoples.”
Poilievre says he wants to put all individual Liberal MPs on the record on whether they now support a pipeline and changes to the tanker ban, which was enacted in 2019 under former prime minister Justin Trudeau. The motion is not legislation and would not automatically authorize any specific project.
“Will, in the spirit of Christmas, Liberals admit they were wrong, vote for their own wording, approve a pipeline and get rid of the tanker ban?” Poilievre asked during Monday’s question period.
Government House leader Steven MacKinnon shot back that “the prime minister and all of us and all Conservative premiers and most people in this country supports all parts of that MOU.”
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