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Sweeping powers, level of consultation questioned as bill races through Parliament
Liberals are attempting to bulldoze their mega projects bill through Parliament, according to critics who say the legislation interferes with Indigenous rights, environmental protection and democracy itself.
The government's One Canadian Economy Act is generating controversy inside and outside the House of Commons, with some arguing it confers king-like powers to rush projects deemed in the national interest to completion.
Every morning, David Huntley checks on the oil tanker traffic outside his home. He can see them cruise up Burrard Inlet from his living room window a few hundred metres above Westridge Marine Terminal, where the Trans Mountain pipeline ends. When I popped by for a visit on June 3, an Aframax called the Tyrrhenian Sea had just docked and was partly visible through a thicket of trees. Last time Huntley saw it here was April 20; since then, it has been to China and back.
We write as a concerned group of 412 Canadians, including academics, lawyers, former and retired ambassadors (including to the United Nations), ministers and public servants, UN human rights experts, and civil society, labour and faith leaders, all deeply concerned with the catastrophic human rights and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, now into its twentieth month.
