🇨🇦 Liberals suddenly fear the powers they wrote for themselves

Bill C-39 lets Ottawa greenlight pipelines, mines and ports in one year, even allowing construction before an environmental assessment is finished. Now Liberal MP Patrick Weiler is clutching pearls over ministerial discretion and permanent powers that a future government might abuse, as reported. That is the funniest part. These are the same Liberals who spent a decade strangling Canadian energy with process, NGOs, consultation theatre and ideological vetoes, and now they want emergency shortcuts because the country is poorer than their slogans promised.

Carney wants the economy of a serious country without dismantling the activist bureaucracy that made Canada unbuildable in the first place. So we get the usual Liberal two-step: fast-track the projects they like, keep endless levers for cabinet, and pretend this is principled governance rather than panic management. Weiler is not defending sovereignty or prosperity. He is defending the old green priesthood from losing control of the permitting maze. Canada does need to build, but not under a class of managerial globalists who broke the house and now demand applause for finding the toolbox.

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