The Liberal government gave the green light to the $6.8−billion pipeline expansion late last month, despite a thicket of existing legal challenges to the regulatory process.
In an interview, Justin Trudeau said his pan-Canadian climate plan can be considered a bust if it fails to put Canada on track to meeting its international, 2030 emission-cutting targets
The federal government is seeking a way to regulate underwater shipping noise as part of its plan to protect an endangered group of killer whales from increased oil tanker traffic off Vancouver.
CAPP told the federal government this summer that carbon tax revenues from oil and gas should be pumped back into the industry in order to "not only preserve, but enhance" the sector.
The government promised the United Nations that Canada will cut emissions 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 but Canada's greenhouse gases have been slowly trending upward for five years
Prime Minister Trudeau has two major oil pipeline expansions, insisting all the while that the new fossil fuel infrastructure fits within his government's plan to reduce emissions.
Canadian corporate executives whose companies together employ more than a million people are urging Prime Minister Trudeau and the premiers to press ahead with climate action and carbon pricing.
The Liberal government is throwing open the doors to voting in federal elections, including expanding the franchise to more than a million Canadians living abroad.
The bastion of Canadian establishment journalism and a pugnacious media upstart took turns ripping into the publicly funded CBC in testimony Tuesday to the Commons Heritage committee.
