{"id":309566,"date":"2025-11-27T05:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T05:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/309566\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T05:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T05:13:11","slug":"guilbeault-wont-resign-from-cabinet-over-pipeline-deal-government-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/309566\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilbeault won\u2019t resign from Cabinet over pipeline deal, government source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and former <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/environment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">environment<\/a> minister Steven Guilbeault will not resign from Mark Carney\u2019s cabinet over the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/pipeline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pipeline<\/a> agreement between Ottawa and Alberta, according to a senior government source.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763808739_201_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Guilbeault had been rumoured to be unhappy with Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s decision to agree to a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that would outline conditions under which a potential new <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/oil\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">oil<\/a> pipeline could be built to the northwest coast of British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>The senior government source told Global News that Guilbeault and Carney spoke about the pipeline MoU in what was described as an \u201chonest and candid\u201d conversation.<\/p>\n<p>One of the leading environmentalists in the Liberal caucus, Guilbeault is a major political figure for the Liberals in his home province of Quebec and was a staunch defender of the consumer carbon tax brought in under Justin Trudeau.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Despite Carney\u2019s dumping the consumer carbon tax as his first act as prime minister, Guilbeault, a former Greenpeace activist, agreed to run again and endorsed Carney in the Liberal leadership race.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763808740_130_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>While Guilbeault staying is a major political win for Carney, not all Liberals are happy about the pending agreement between Ottawa and Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple senior Liberals who spoke with Global News expressed a belief that despite the MoU, a pipeline to the northwest coast of B.C. will never be built, listing the need to find a private proponent and getting the support of B.C. First Nations as major hurdles.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Carney addresses ongoing talks over deal on pipeline from Alberta to B.C.\u2019s northern coast'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/THUMBS.00_00_00_00.Still002.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:02<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCarney addresses ongoing talks over deal on pipeline from Alberta to B.C.\u2019s northern coast\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11540944\/polar-vortex-early-winter-canada\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764220391_971_Canada-snowstorm.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPolar vortex set to bring \u2018harsh early start to winter\u2019 across Canada\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11543316\/canada-new-alert-system-extreme-weather\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/22507856.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCanada launches new alert system to protect people in extreme weather\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we are doing is a series of major investments \u2014 nation-building projects that make our country stronger, more independent from the United States \u2014 and these projects are done in a way that benefit and have the full support of Indigenous peoples, and are consistent with our climate goals,\u201d Carney said when Global News asked him Sunday about the status of negotiations with Alberta on a pipeline project.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister will announce the conditions for how a new pipeline from Alberta to B.C. could be built Thursday in Calgary with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and former environment minister&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[138361,138362,49,48,295,44,138360,714],"class_list":{"0":"post-309566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-alberta-bc","9":"tag-bc-coast","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-pipeline-politics","15":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}