Major Projects Office = Mostly Photo Ops
Ottawa, ON – Mark Carney promised Canadians his government would ‘do things previously thought impossible at speeds we haven’t seen in generations.’ Today, after five months in office, he announced an office that will one day consider approving projects. If this government was any slower, they’d be going backwards.
After a decade of Liberals killing major projects with their anti-development laws, the problem was not a lack of bureaucracy. There are still the same no-growth laws in place, no projects permitted, no investments committed and no shovels in the ground to get Canadians working and our resources and products to global markets.
Another office of bureaucrats that will one day consider approving a project won’t get anything built. This is just another mechanism for Liberals to pick their winners and losers. Meanwhile, in some countries, entire LNG ports are getting built and online in 190 days:
- Eemshaven LNG Terminal, Netherlands: Plan to completion in 6 months.
- Gasgrid LNG Terminal, Finland: Agreement signed May 2022, and construction started August 2022.
- Wilhelmshaven LNG Terminal, Germany: Project announcement March 2022, and completed December 2022.
Liberals created the problems, but Conservatives will bring the solutions. This fall, we will introduce a motion to pass the Canada Sovereignty Act that will repeal growth-blocking laws, reward those who build and protect Canadian innovation.
We are calling on Prime Minister Carney to do what he promised: build at a scale we haven’t seen in generations and work with Conservatives to restore a safe, secure and self-reliant Canada.