Avi Lewis: “I am now being paid a salary by the party that is in line with what previous leaders have had in times of financial…”

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.

“We cannot let that happen. You don’t save Canada by allowing American investors to dismantle steel production in this country piece by piece,” said Lewis.

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.

Indigenous nations have expressed opposition. And the environmental and climate consequences are extreme, including the threat to endangered Southern Resident orcas.