News Analysis
Conservatives say they will table a motion next week in the House of Commons asking if MPs support an oil pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast along with any “appropriate adjustment” to the oil tanker ban on B.C.’s north coast.
“We need a new pipeline to the pacific,” Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre posted on X Dec. 5. “Bring home jobs. Put Canada First.”
The motion will be tabled Dec. 9, according to the Conservatives, and uses the language of the Nov. 27 memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between Ottawa and Alberta to ask for a “yes” or “no” answer on support for the MOU, which includes a proposal to build one or more oil pipelines from Alberta to the B.C. Coast. The results could reveal potential fractures for support of the government’s MOU within the Liberal Party, whose MPs have issued contradictory statements….