Avi Lewis: “This government is doubling down on yesterday's failed solutions and dragging us into further danger, risk, and…”

“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.

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

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.

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.