Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he would meet the five policy recommendations recently outlined by Canadian energy companies in a letter they sent to all major party leaders last week.
“We need to get out from under America’s thumb and start building the infrastructure that is essential to sell our natural resources to new markets, bring home jobs and dollars, and make us sovereign and self-reliant to stand up to Trump from a position of strength,” Poilievre said in an April 1 statement.
A group of 14 energy CEOs had asked the leaders in a March 19 letter to declare an “energy crisis” and use the associated emergency powers to relax regulations within the industry and increase production levels. The CEOs also outlined a number of policies that they said would “support oil and natural gas investment and remove the barriers we have imposed on ourselves over time.”…