With a new fossil lobby group, Suits and Boots, urging Conservative senators to slow down passage of the Trudeau government’s new Impact Assessment Act, Bill C-69, climate and energy advocates are gearing up their defence of a bill aimed at restoring some of the environmental protections that were gutted by the previous Harper regime.
“Bill C-69 is the greatest threat to the future of your industry since the National Energy Program,” federal Conservative leader Andrew Scheer told an industry audience in Calgary last month. “Justin Trudeau has told Canadians more than once that he wants to phase out your industry,” and “Bill C-69 is the centrepiece in how he will do it.”
