Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said his government would establish a new office to speed up regulatory approvals, enabling the swift authorization of 10 resource projects that have faced delays for years.
Poilievre made the announcement during an April 7 press conference in Terrace, B.C., saying a Tory government would establish a Rapid Resource Project Office to deal with all regulatory approvals, so that businesses would not need to “waste time navigating through dozens of different agencies at three different levels of government.”
Each project would have just one application and one environmental review, and wait times would be reduced to one year maximum with a target of six months, he said, noting that he would “rapidly approve,” 10 “trapped” projects such as the LNG Canada Phase 2, a liquefied natural gas project in northern B.C., which would double liquid natural gas output from 14 million to 28 million tonnes….