In order for Poilievre to be in the House of Commons in the fall to introduce the bill, he will first have to win his byelection in Alberta’s riding of Battle River-Crowfoot on Aug. 18.<\/p>\n
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Poilievre: \u2018I love the people of Battle River-Crowfoot\u2019 <\/p>\n
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre, speaking in Calgary on Thursday, is asked how he is feeling heading into the Aug. 18 byelection where he’s running to regain a seat in the House of Commons. <\/p>\n
The proposed legislation repackages many Conservative\u00a0campaign promises.<\/p>\n
They include: repealing Bill C-69, what former Alberta premier Jason Kenney dubbed the “no more pipelines act”; scrapping the West Coast oil tanker ban;\u00a0killing the industrial carbon tax;\u00a0eliminating the electric vehicle mandate\u00a0and reversing the single-use plastics ban<\/a>.<\/p>\n Poilievre said the Sovereignty Act would also include his campaign promise to exempt people from capital gains tax when they reinvest the proceeds of an investment in a Canadian company.<\/p>\n The Conservative leader said that after his party introduces the legislation it will be willing to work with all parties in the House to amend and get it passed.<\/p>\n “I am calling on Prime Minister Carney to do what he promised, build at a scale we haven’t seen in generations and work with Conservatives to restore Canada’s sovereignty in the face of American threats,” Poilievre\u00a0said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n The chicken and the egg<\/p>\n In recent weeks, B.C. Premier David Eby has said that he is not opposed to a new pipeline in his province but that the issue was moot for the moment because there are no private companies that have proposed building one.\u00a0<\/p>\n Poilievre was asked how the Sovereignty Act, if passed, will be able to approve projects when they are not even at the proposal stage yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n “The opponents of pipelines are using this very cleverly,” he said. “They’re saying: ‘well we can’t change the rules to allow a pipeline, because there’s no pipeline proposed.’ That’s because the rules don’t allow for pipelines to get built\u2026<\/p>\n “So let’s get rid of this chicken and egg distraction that the Liberals have imposed.”<\/p>\n A national energy corridor<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, along with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, announced their\u00a0own energy infrastructure initiative Thursday. They issued a call for proposals<\/a> to study how to “best establish a new economic and energy corridor” in Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n A statement explained that the proposed corridor would bring western Canadian oil and gas to refineries in southern Ontario, as well as to a new deep-sea port on the coast of James Bay.\u00a0<\/p>\n