Ellis Ross, the sitting Member of Parliament for Skeena – Bulkley Valley, has called out Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Government for flip flopping on its stance about on whose consent is needed for Alberta’s proposed oil pipeline to British Columbia’s North Coast.
Commenting via Facebook on Carney’s statement that British Columbia must consent to any new pipeline, Ross said “the answer changes depending on who the audience is so we’ll see what he says tomorrow”.
On November 20th, MP Ross had pointed out on that while Prime Minister Carney’s government had initially said that pipelines require a Provincial consensus, it has since pivoted to say that Provinces don’t get a veto.
While campaigning for the Conservatives in the last election, Ross had said he would not rule out repealing the north coast tanker ban but stressed that decisions about it, and other resource projects in the region, need to be informed by extensive consultations with local First Nations.
He’s since expressed his confusion and frustrations with the processes of the Major Projects Office and the federal Government’s messaging about it, noting the vagary of a recent statement from Prime Minister Carney indicating that a Memo of Understanding with Alberta on the pipeline “creates necessary conditions, but not sufficient conditions” for it to proceed.
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