The five projects being referred to the new Major Projects Office include LNG Canada Phase 2, which would expand the liquefied natural gas export facility at Kitimat, B.C. Also on the list are modular reactors at Ontario’s existing Darlington Nuclear Generating Station; an expansion by the Port of Montreal in Contrecoeur, Que.; Saskatchewan’s Foran McIlvenna Bay copper mine project; and the Red Chris Copper and Gold Mine expansion in B.C.
Some important additions too:"Taken together, these projects can deliver transformational benefits to Canadians, driving growth and jobs and incomes for decades," says PM Mark Carney re: list of first 5 major projects, which he claims will generate more than $60 billion for Canada's economy. #cdnpoli
— CPAC TV (@cpac.ca) September 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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CARNEY: "We are referring Port of Churchill Plus [to the MPO] as part of a larger vision to unlock an Indigenous-owned energy and transportation corridor in Manitoba. ... This project would be developed in close cooperation with Manitoba's new Crown Indigenous Corporation." #cdnpoli
— Scott Robertson (@sarobertson.bsky.social) September 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Some other comments:CARNEY: "Finally, we will ask the major projects office to begin assisting in the development of a Canadian Sovereign Cloud. ... This will give Canada independent control over advanced computing power while reinforcing our leadership in AI and Quantum." #cdnpoli
— Scott Robertson (@sarobertson.bsky.social) September 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Althia Raj said tonight that Smith is enthusiastic about "something" on the horizon - she certainly sounds pumped, doesn't she?View on Threads
But already we're hearing some negativity about Carney's list. Sigh.
The At Issue panel agreed that controversial projects like pipelines would "suck all the oxygen out of the discussion" but it seems like any resource extraction projects are going to annoy some.'Sixty-three per cent of Canadians agree that Canada should invest in renewable energy over fossil fuel developments. When given a choice of only one project, more Canadians prefer a connected east-west electricity grid to help power Canada’s economy with renewable energy' #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis
— atomicker.bsky.social (@atomicker.bsky.social) September 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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The At Issue panel also agreed that Canadians were not going to penalize Carney for not achieving a tariff deal over the summer -- because we know what he had to work with.
I thought this was important too:Conservatives have captured working-class, visible-minority voters in suburbs—in the GTA and across the country. @desaima.bsky.social and Aniket Kali report on the Left organizers developing a playbook to turn the tide and win them back. breachmedia.ca/to-start-win...
— The Breach (@breachmedia.ca) September 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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More is coming too -- and by the way, I really do like Carney's sports metaphors:❗️After 3 STRAIGHT DAYS of actions urging the federal govt to resume progress on national Pharmacare, PM Carney said in YEG today that new bilateral deals will be finalized “as quickly & as equitably as possible." That's a big change up from the Health Minister's "will not commit" just 2 days ago!
— Friends of Medicare (@friendsofmedicare.bsky.social) September 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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And the Major Projects Office in Calgary is a federal presence in the West like we have never seen here before.CARNEY: "There are a number of other projects around the country that have been proposed that the MPO will be in the process of evaluating. That's why we're confident that there will be another tranche at the Grey Cup, certainly another one by the Stanley Cup, another one by the World Cup." #cdnpoli
— Scott Robertson (@sarobertson.bsky.social) September 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Justin Ling / The Walrus
Try as They Might, Conservatives Will Have Trouble Escaping Trump
Poilievre’s mixed messages undercut his credibility in an election campaign defined by the US president
...The Conservative Party spent the last years of the Justin Trudeau government honing this appeal to change, affordability, and ambition. It had targeted a strange alliance of young men who listened to crypto podcasts, growing families priced out of the suburbs, anti-vaxxers who feared a one-world government, and working-class people more interested in work than collecting employment insurance.......It was not a campaign designed to adapt to changing circumstances, because nobody could conceive of circumstances changing. When circumstances did change, the campaign’s leaders told themselves that Canada’s fundamental weaknesses had not changed; therefore, they didn’t need to change either.It was only after Donald Trump’s inauguration and his sudden halt to global trade that the Conservatives began to consider a change in course, albeit a tiny one. When Trump promised automotive tariffs, Poilievre tried a performative tough-guy routine while touring a factory in Quebec. “Knock it off!” he exclaimed. When Trump said some nice things about Carney, Poilievre tried to spin it as an endorsement, suggesting that the Liberal Party and the Republican Party were cut from the same cloth. He would even tack toward fatalism, suggesting that Trump is impossible to control.
These different tones made Poilievre a pathetic figure. Nobody bought him as a tough negotiator. Nobody believed Carney and Trump shared much at all. Nobody was much inspired by being told that a Canadian prime minister was just another suit, powerless against Trump. And perhaps it would have been more convincing if it hadn’t been so loosely and belatedly improvised....
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Fossil Fuels and nuclear power expansion.
"Before entering public office, Carney cast himself as a climate crusader whose insights on the topic appealed to a range of players from the United Nations to Brookfield. As prime minister, he’s gone quiet."
Yet another betrayal.
Oh, and did ANYONE hear the word 'austerity' during the Lib-leadership and subsequent election campaign?
Well, but that was then and this is now.
In my opinion, Carney is dancing as fast as he can to disentangle our economy from the US before theirs collapses. He isn't making some of the progressive choices I would like either but he is setting a direction that seems clear.
The natural gas thing is stupid (It is also stupid when David Eby of the NDP does it in BC. Why, Eby, why?!). I'm strongly against it.
The nuclear thing, SMRs, is stupid. I am against it in the sense that I am against wasting money for nothing by dumping truckloads of cash on grifters. But it won't be built, so I don't care that much.
The mines . . . I don't know enough about them to say. All mines cause at least some environmental destruction, but we can't not do ANY mines or civilization falls. So the devil is in the details, and I don't know 'em.
What annoys me most is that there is absolutely ZERO to fight climate change and join the future economy. If he was with one hand doing a fossil fuel thing like LNG and with the other doing a renewables thing, well, it would not be great . . . but I have come to the conclusion that the real change is happening on the demand side, so things like LNG facilities won't matter when demand dries up, so if he was contributing to the electrification side it might be a net win. But he's doing nothing. SMR nuclear reactors don't count for various reasons, including that they won't be built.
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