Avi Lewis: “The designation process makes a mockery of the duty to consult First Nations.”

It is an offence to Canadian science, public health, collective safety and common sense. And it is a gift to an oil industry already on track to make $100 billion in wartime profits this year alone.

Carney’s token announcements don’t measure up to the billions of dollars in public funding and corporate incentives that could go toward a proposed oil pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast.

This project leaves Canadians bearing all the risks of a bad investment without any of the rewards. The industry itself is unwilling to finance this project. Indigenous nations have expressed opposition. And the environmental and climate…

Throwing billions in public money behind a pipeline at a time of climate breakdown — while sweeping aside environmental protections, meaningful Indigenous consultation and workers’ right to strike – is absolutely not in the national…