{"id":335311,"date":"2025-12-09T20:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/335311\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T20:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:54:15","slug":"poilievre-to-force-vote-on-motion-about-liberal-support-for-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/335311\/","title":{"rendered":"Poilievre to force vote on motion about Liberal support for pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"

An effort by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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The motion also seeks to get a commitment from the Liberals<\/a> to override the northern British Columbia oil tanker ban<\/a> if necessary in order to get that pipeline built, despite opposition from Coastal First Nations and the B.C. government.<\/p>\n

Liberals said Tuesday they will vote against the motion, accusing Poilievre of seeking division and \u201cplaying games.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCanadians see the motion before us today for what it is: it\u2019s a cynical ploy to divide us, it\u2019s a cheap political stunt,\u201d Energy Minister Tim Hodgson told reporters.<\/p>\n

The motion directly cites language in the memorandum of understanding signed between Ottawa and Alberta<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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The agreement includes a federal commitment to \u201cenable\u201d such a project, \u201cincluding if necessary through an appropriate adjustment to the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Conservative motion quotes that language and adds \u201cwhile respecting the duty to consult Indigenous Peoples.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cI took the wording for the motion right out of his deal, and if he votes against the motion, he\u2019s voting against the pipeline to the Pacific,\u201d Poilievre said in question period Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Mark Carney said the Conservatives should put forward the entire memorandum as a motion for a vote, rather than just part of the portion on a future pipeline.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe memorandum of understanding is not something that you can pick and choose from,\u201d he said in French.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to eat the entire meal, not just the appetizer.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty, who is Cree, called the motion \u201can immature waste of parliamentary time\u201d and \u201can insult toward Indigenous peoples\u201d while speaking to reporters alongside Hodgson and other ministers earlier Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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She noted the MOU commits both Ottawa and Alberta to consult with and seek consent from B.C. and First Nations on a future pipeline, something she said will ensure \u201crespect\u201d and \u201cequity\u201d among all communities and stakeholders impacted by such a project.<\/p>\n

Ministers also highlighted the memorandum\u2019s commitments on pursing carbon capture and renewable energy projects as well as updates to the industrial carbon price, which the Conservative motion does not mention.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis motion doesn\u2019t reflect the full agreement \u2026 and this motion refuses to talk about climate change and any kind of commitment to get to net-zero (emissions),\u201d\u00a0Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a party, we are united in wanting to make sure that we continue to build Canada, that we build it well, that we take into account climate change in the work that we do, and that we respect Indigenous rightsholders. Our party is united on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The oil tanker ban on the northern B.C. coast, which was first promised by Trudeau in 2015, has been blamed for killing the Northern Gateway and Eagle Spirit pipeline projects from the Alberta oilsands to northwestern B.C.<\/p>\n

Federal Conservatives and successive Alberta governments have called on the 2019 federal law to be repealed, arguing it constrains the oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n

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The B.C. government and Coastal First Nations signed a proclamation last month committing to uphold the tanker ban<\/a>, and the Assembly of First Nations voted unanimously<\/a> at last week\u2019s annual meeting to reject any changes to the law.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe province (of B.C.) has worked hard to build relationships with Nations in British Columbia, and I think Canada needs to understand and respect that,\u201d Haida Nation president and Coastal First Nations vice-president Gaagwiis Jason Alsop told reporters in Ottawa on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Alsop, who travelled to Ottawa with other Coastal First Nations leaders to witness Tuesday\u2019s House of Commons vote, said the \u201cfragile balance\u201d between promoting economic activity for First Nations and respecting those communities\u2019 sovereignty must \u201ccontinue to be nurtured.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cHaving a project jammed through that affects our title and rights and harms our territory, damages those relationships that are so important to all of us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Calgary MP Corey Hogan, the parliamentary secretary to Hodgson, acknowledged voting \u201cno\u201d could send the wrong message that Liberals were not \u201cserious\u201d about a pipeline.<\/p>\n

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Yet he also called his \u201cno\u201d vote \u201ca very easy decision\u201d and criticized Poilievre\u2019s \u201cgame-playing\u201d for putting a future pipeline in jeopardy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he was thinking about this in terms of how do we actually get a pipeline built, he would never have brought forward this motion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a risk in voting yes, there\u2019s a risk in voting no. This motion was designed to create risk, because this motion is designed not to get a pipeline built but instead to try and poke at people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hodgson, when asked Tuesday if voting \u201cno\u201d will create uncertainty for potential pipeline proponents, said the MOU as a whole sends the right message to industry.<\/p>\n

Gull-Masty added the MOU shows clarity and \u201cmaturity\u201d by clearly stating the intent to consult and collaborate with all affected parties before a project is approved.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s motion that\u2019s being put on the floor is not a \u2018no\u2019 vote for the MOU. It\u2019s a \u2018no\u2019 vote against the Conservatives playing games and creating optics and wasting parliamentary time when they should be voting on things that are way more important,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Potential unrest among the Liberals was thrust into the spotlight hours after the Alberta-Ottawa memorandum was signed, when former environment minister Steven Guilbeault resigned as Canadian identity and culture minister.<\/p>\n

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Guilbeault released an open letter Tuesday<\/a> that sharply criticized the MOU, calling it a \u201csignificant step backward in the fight against climate change\u201d and a deal that risks Canada\u2019s \u201cenvironmental integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of opinions and views in our caucus, Mr. Guilbeault\u2019s is one,\u201d Government House leader Steven MacKinnon said Tuesday. \u201cWe\u2019ll obviously continue to have a caucus and a party that contains many different points of view, but the government\u2019s position on this matter is very clear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet told reporters in Ottawa there was \u201cno way on Earth that we would vote for this motion, which was specifically designed in order to insert a wedge within the Liberal caucus.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt might be quite efficient\u201d in doing so, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe in all friendship \u2014 and maybe they will not receive it that way \u2014 that Alberta should start a transition toward a new economy\u201d and away from oil and gas, he added.<\/p>\n

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