Avi Lewis: “The bill doesn’t ban this disturbing practice — in fact, it doesn’t even mention it by name.”

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

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.

“It’s time for the Liberal government to take back control of our industry by nationalizing Stelco.”

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.