Prime Minister Mark Carney has suggested that he could be willing to move away from emission limits for the oil and gas industry in a change of his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, whose government had begun the process to regulate greenhouse gases.
Speaking to journalists in Edmonton after meeting with Alberta Danielle Smith’s prime minister on Thursday, Car Paney was asked to counteract the harmful effects of US tariffs on the oil and gas industry, while supporting an emissions limit.
Carney said she wanted to make Canada’s energy sector more competitive when “working with the industry and provinces on specific ways of obtaining those reductions, instead of, and the last point that approaches his question, instead of having pre -established limits or pre -established restrictions in pre -established timelines.”
The prime minister did not explain, but his comments seem to contradict the Federal Environment Minister who appointed days, Terry Duguid.
In a recent interview with the Canadian press, Duguid said that, if chosen, Carney would maintain the limit proposed by liberals in emissions.
“We want that energy. What we don’t want is that pollution,” Duguid said.
Trudeau promised a limit of oil and gas emissions in the 2021 elections and the regulation process began in 2022.
In November, the liberals introduced draft regulations, two years ago of programs, which require producers to reduce emissions in approximately one third in the next eight years, and said the regulations did not place a limit to production.
The Federal Government also proposed a cover and trade system where each company would receive an emission allocation that would equal a unit per ton of carbon contamination. Companies that pollute less could sell their outrageous allocation units for profit, while companies that do not reduce their emissions would have to buy units of assignment of other companies to meet.
Alberta Premier lists the demands
Smith said that in his first meeting face to face with the new prime minister, he gave him an ear on forest fires and oil sales and warned him that the national unit remains in balance.
“I provided a specific list of demands that the next prime minister, regardless of whoever, must address within the first six months of his mandate to avoid an unprecedented national unit crisis,” said Alberta Prime Minister in a statement on Thursday after his morning meeting with Carney in the capital of Alberta.
Smith has been a critic for a long time in Trudeau, saying that federal liberal government policies have invaded Alberta’s resources for years and have strangled their wellspring oil and gas industry.
Smith said it was Carney’s idea and that they had a “frank discussion.”
“I made it clear that Albertaos will no longer tolerate the way in which federal liberals treated us in the last 10 years,” he said.
Smith repeated a series of policies that he wants to change, including access through cross limits without restrictions to build pipes and the end of the proposed greenhouse gas emission emissions, which Alberta says it would be the production of resources in the hamstrings.
A day before, Smith told reporters that he is skeptical that Carney can deliver. “I can tell you that I don’t encourage what I’ve seen so far,” he said. “I think there is a real danger that the new prime minister is worse than the old prime minister.”
At the unrelated press conference in Edmonton later on Thursday, Carney recognized the meeting with Smith and said he is committed to making Canada’s oil industry more competitive.
“The commitment is to deliver projects like the ones we agreed are national priorities,” said Carney. “It’s about getting, yes, pipes built in this country so we can displace foreign oil imports.”
Alberta NDP leader Naheed Neshi said that Smith’s threat of a national unit crisis is “child” and “minor” and will not obtain any concession of the federal government.
He said that if the prime minister wants to continue threatening a national unit crisis, she must call a referendum about the separation of Alberta and resign if she fails.
Carbonas straps on skates
Carney passed the day in shoes and skates. Late in the morning, the former University Hockey goalkeeper stopped at Rogers Place to skate with the Edmonton Oilers in practice.
The 24th Prime Minister of Canada wore a Blue Oilers shirt with number 24 and his last name in the back. He spoke with the coaches, joined the players in a pass simulation and crashed goalkeeper Calvin Pickard.
Also on Thursday, the Carney Office established $ 187 million in new funds to help rebuild Jasper. It is the largest financing package announced for Jasper since a forest fire shattered by Jasper National Park and destroyed a third of the city in July.
Smith said he talked about Jasper with Carney.
“I made it clear that the federal mismanagement of Jasper and Banff’s national parks resulted in last year’s tragic forest fire in Jasper and is endangering Banff, and the situation must be rectified immediately,” he said.
Carney also made an affordable ad. The federal government is eliminating GST in new or “substantially renewed” houses sold for less than $ 1 million to housing buyers for the first time.
The Prime Minister’s trip to Edmonton came when all parties prepare to reach the hustings.
The sources say that Carney will go to Governor General Mary Simon on Sunday to dissolve Parliament and launch a federal electoral campaign.
Carney Liberals will have their job for them in Alberta. The party only has two members sitting in the province with Randy Boissonult in Edmonton and George Chahal in Calgary. Both seek re -election.
Carney said she knows that her party has a large hill to climb west, but said they will have a series of strong candidates.
The visit of Carney to Edmonton, his childhood house, was the first since he made his announcement for the offer of liberal leadership in the city in January. Born in the Northwest territories, Carney grew up in Edmonton before going to study economy in Harvard and the University of Oxford.
In his leadership announcement, Carney remembered his skates to play outdoor hockey on Laurier Heights Community League in West Edmonton.
“I can still listen to the blades of the skates that hit the floor while trying that the blood flows on our fingers of the feet,” he said at that time, joking about Edmonton’s climate.
