The head of "special project" office of the federal Government is an oil executive. No wonder why high-speed rail isn't on the list, but a fucking pipeline that no one wants is.
Dawn Farrell, the head of the federal government’s Major Projects Office, believes the Trans Mountain oil pipeline helps fight climate change.
Speaking Thursday at the House of Commons environment committee, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who was tapped by Prime Minister Mark Carney to shepherd his major projects agenda, was asked by Bloc Québécois environment critic Patrick Bonin if she believed the pipeline contributes to the fight against climate change.
“The answer is yes,” Farrell said. “Most of the oil is cracked to make naphtha which goes into petrochemicals, which goes into making electric cars, to electrify the grid in Asia.”
Farrell, who told the committee she earns about $700,000 per year in her role at the Major Projects Office, did not offer any estimate for how many emissions she believes are avoided by using oil to help produce electric vehicles.
According to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, by facilitating more oil exports, the Trans Mountain expansion project is expected to add 84 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions every year when taking into account both the emissions from producing and consuming the oil.
“Trans Mountain is a financial drain and an environmental disaster, and it's not reassuring to know that the CEO who finalized the project now heads the Major Projects Office,” Bonin said in a statement.
“The ‘Freedom Convoy’ was a foreign-funded occupation and political destabilization movement, not a grassroots movement about COVID mandates." And of course #PeePee was its hand servant. cultmtl.com/2025/10/observatio…
We really want to kill the planet as fast as possible
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Prime Minister Mark Carney raised the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would run from northern Alberta to the U.S. Midwest, during his conversations with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, according to a source with direct knowledge of the meeting.
The source said Carney expressed renewed national interest *(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that's Alberta)* in the pipeline from the Canadian side and the U.S. president was receptive to the project advancing.
With a “flashing red warning light” heralding years of low oil prices, and a major Canadian fossil company joining its international peers in laying off hundreds of workers, a Simon Fraser University political scientist says no new oil pipeline will …
When his mic was silenced, Li was about to ask why the government pays $460 million to private schools, while public schools are deprived. A good question, although asking it can get you spanked. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... via @ calgaryherald #Cdnpoli #Ableg
Another 1300+ cases of COVID-19 THIS PAST WEEK and 1000+ THE WEEK BEFORE THAT in Québec... and, yet, Québec has aligned itself w/ Alberta to gouge people, if they want the COVID-19 vaccine! Health Canada has made the vaccines available to each province and territory for free... but the CAQ wants to line its pockets, eh. #CAQASTROPHE #scumbags #COVIDISNOTOVER #cdnpoli #polcan #polQC #QCpoli
The Canada Revenue Agency is doing a public consultation on automatic tax filing (which they should have implemented …several decades ago!). Fill it out and let the CRA know that it’s a good idea! canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/co… via @lisafast #cdnpoli #GCdigital
For any Canadians who want to pressure the government to force Canada Post to the table, NOT to force postal workers back to work, you can follow these steps!
If you wish to send something to Patty Hajdu directly:
If you are in Thunder Bay-Superior North, she's your MP! Write patty.hajdu@parl.gc.ca
If not, you can try writing the Ministry of Jobs and Families directly at edsc.min.ef-jf.min.esdc@hrsdc-rhdcc.gc.ca
You can call (819) 654-5546 as well.
This is what I wrote in my email (and I said something similar on the phone).
The pastebin is to provide alt text (since it breaks the 3000 alt-text limit) - you CAN use it as a template, but I encourage you to write it in your own words, especially if she's your MP!
Canada's Communication Security Establishment's (CSE) Centre for Cyber Security joined its international counterparts urging organizations to take immediate action to patch up vulnerabilities following a widespread hit on the technology security company #Cisco... cbc.ca/news/politics/cisco-cyb… #cdnpoli #polcan #technology #CSE #FAIL
More than 250 elected officials across Canada have signed onto a campaign calling on the federal government to prioritize major infrastructure projects that help in the fight against climate change.
Just thinking about how the money Canada spent on just one pipeline (TMX) could have bought every single Canadian an e-bike AND had billions left over.
Just let that sink in
Every adult and child, a free e-bike, and billions left over.
Instead we bought a pipeline.
Next we're gonna generationally invest in what? Solar? Micro-electric mobility? Battery tech? Agriculture? Health care? Kickstarting green industry?
Probably not. We're probably going to bankrupt the country for fossil fuel interests.
Who mows a swastika into their front lawn? A Nazi, that's who!
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are."
CANADA: The Alto high speed rail project is to benefit from a Major Projects Office which the government has established to identify projects that are in the national interest and streamline their assessment and approval to accelerate development.
"carbon capture project." <- and they are getting scammed on this. The only carbon capture is by keeping that shit in the ground. In solid or liquid form.
I really don't think Carney knows what the words "nation building" means. "Nation building" is making big ambitious investments that make people proud of being part of the nation and unite the nation.
Public healthcare was a nation building project. The railroad was a nation building project. The Canadarm did some nation building. Weed could have been if Trudeau didn't fuck it up and put the provinces in charge. Dental care could have been if it wasn't just Obamacare for teeth.
Examples of nation building projects would be: - High speed rail - Free universal child care - Massive investment in public transit across all cities (not PPP) - A UBI - A nationalized ISP with a mandate to provide high speed internet to all
No one is going to be like "I am so fucking proud we have invested in a copper mine!" or "Wooo! Upgrades to existing nuclear power plant!!" or "phase 2 of an LNG pipeline? Awesome! Phase 2, baby!!"
Those are not nation building. Those are just industry investment.
The Carney government's suspension of the EV mandate has nothing to do with “pragmatism” or “moderation” as I heard an interviewee say on the CBC this morning.
It's about the Ontario car industry realizing they don't make EVs or even Hybrids that can compete with Korea, Japan, or Europe (let alone China).
People want them. BC is at 20% new (the mandated level), Quebec is at 30%. Those are the #2 and #3 most populous provinces in Canada btw.
It's politics, and... specifically with Carney, cowardice, nothing else. BC’s Energy Minister Adrian Dix called it out
“I want to say this: Their target for this year, we achieved four years ago,” Dix said of the existing federal electric vehicle mandates. “The issue here in Canada -- and I think the federal government needs to engage in this a little bit -- is first and foremost with Ontario.”
British Columbia’s energy minister says the federal decision to delay its electric vehicle sales mandate largely reflects circumstances in Ontario, and Ottawa should follow through on a more Canada-wide policy after its review.
Carney knows this. So why does he want more wealth inequality?
Austerity has *never* worked.
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As the past four years and countless historical examples from the last 100 years show, while it makes sense for any one state to try and cut its way to growth, it simply cannot work when all states try it simultaneously: all we do is shrink the economy.
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As Blyth amply demonstrates, the arguments for austerity are tenuous and the evidence thin. Rather than expanding growth and opportunity, the repeated revival of this dead economic idea has almost always led to low growth along with increases in wealth and income inequality.
How does walking back the mandate spur more demand, exactly?
"The mandate requires the number of new ZEVs (zero-emission vehicles) sold in Canada to hit 20% by next year, 60% by 2030 and 100% by 2035 in order to help the country hit its emission-reduction targets.
A government release explains that the EV pause and other measures in the strategy will... spur more domestic demand."
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is delaying a requirement for automakers that sell in Canada to begin hitting minimum sales levels for electric vehicles next year
This probably wasn't the day I wanted to read about Carney's efforts to protect the auto sector from EV rules : firesmoke.ca/
Bloomberg: Canada to Stall Electric Vehicle Rules as Carney Seeks to Boost Auto Sector (and as Trump exhorts countries to dump any non-fossil fuel plans) #cdnpoli
Let me get this. Those that don't want the EV mandate would be the one that would never vote for the PM party. (they got a pipeline with the previous PM)
> The PMO added it would be beneficial for cabinet to hear Roberts's perspective and understand the White House's priorities as the government prepares for the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) review next year.
Riiiiight. Because they have no idea. Are they stupid or what?
FYI the TFWP that the Harper government expanded to bring in more than 500,000 LOW-SKILLED workers btwn 2006 and 2014 to be exploited by employers in the restaurant and retail industries, in addition to the agriculture industry, etc.?
Remember the Harper government that Pierre Poilievre propped up for a decade?
An update to Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine that targets the newest variants and is made entirely within Canada's borders was just approved by Health Canada.
