Alberta premier says she likes Ottawa’s speedy plan for infrastructure project approvals
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said that the federal government loves the plan to reduce the approval periods of large infrastructure projects for two years and that Canada could review the other legislation to “increase investor confidence”.
“I think part [Prime Minister Mark Carney’s] The work is to create an investment climate that says ‘welcome to Canada again’ to the investor community, because it hasn’t done it for the last 10 years, Smith said Smith Rosemary Barton live It was released on Sunday.
Carney and the liberal government are leading with plans to accelerate infrastructure projects, a central board of the party’s election platform.
In the early June, liberals A Canadian Economy LawHe said Carney was a bill designed to create a Canadian economy from 13 people at that time and to create a “more powerful, more flexible Canadian economy” working for everyone.
The Prime Minister said that the draft will accelerate the approval process of the major infrastructure projects-instead of the “one project, one review” approach, rather than the realization of the provincial approval processes, reduced its approval periods from five years to two years.
Smith told the host Rosemary Barton that Carney’s request for a two -year period to approve national projects is a “show that the federal process is broken” and that Alberta is willing to run in resource projects.
Alberta Premier also calls for Otawa to revise Bill C-69, also known as the impact assessment law. The draft law, which came into force in 2019, allowed federal regulators to consider the potential environmental and social effects of resource and infrastructure projects.
Some Chapters of the Law changed After the Canadian Supreme Court decided in 2023, the parts of the Affect Evaluation Law (IAA) were contrary to the constitution. Alberta government said The changes were insufficient And he called the revised bill “contrary to the constitution”.
Smith said that Otawa has judicial authority on projects exceeding the borders, but there are ideological and difficult -to -measure requirements in IAA. The law needs revisions, because “We must keep up with the Americans and change their regulatory processes so fast. If we don’t continue, we will lose this investment window.”
Is Canada moving too fast?
Critics of a Canadian Economy Law, legislation, interferes with domestic rights and environmental protection. They also claim that the bill provides king -like forces to run to the projects accepted in the national interests of Canada.
The proposed legislation authorizes the federal government to exempt pipelines, mines or other projects listed from any law or government regulation.
Towards the end of the 18 -page bill, he says that the cabinet’s national interest projects can exemption not only from environmental laws, but also from parliamentary actions.
Dominic Leblanc, the Minister of Interpretation of the Canadian economy and Canadian-US trade, defended the bill Rosemary Barton live And the Canadians said that liberals should not be surprised to accelerate the projects accepted in national interests.
Leblanc told Barton in his statement, “We took a role from the Canadians. On page 1 of the liberal platform, 13, not 13, but to talk about the Canadian economy and to build big national projects again.”
Canada is trying to work with US President Donald Trump’s team to end the Canadian-US trade war, but things don’t move fast enough. Therefore, the country needs to do things that “long -term or process is inconsistent.”
According to an official in his office, Carney will meet with Trump on Monday morning in Alberta before the start of the main talks at the summit of G7 leaders.
Since Smith hosts the G7 summit in Alta, Kanaskis, Kanaskis said that he could ask for a bilateral meeting with one of the world leaders, and Trump demanded Australian Prime Minister Anthony Anthony Albanian and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.
