Tories promise ‘one and done’ resource project approvals​on April 7, 2025 at 5:32 pm

OTTAWA — A Tory government would fast-track much-needed resource projects, the Conservative party leader said Monday.

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Speaking to reporters at a campaign stop in Terrace, B.C., Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre promised to revitalize Canada’s natural resources industry by streamlining project approvals — which has become an onerous process under the past decade of Liberal government.

“This was by design,” Poilievre said.

“Liberals don’t like these projects, their radical environmental ideology prevents it from happening.”

Poilievre pushed an agenda of moving away from dependence on the United States and selling our energy and natural resources overseas, a means he said would secure Canada’s energy future.

“We should be selling our resources to the world, breaking dependence on Putin and other foreign dictators, and going around the Americans,” he said.

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“Canadian oil and clean natural gas should be displacing coal and reducing emissions worldwide by allowing India and other Asian countries to use gas instead of dirty coal — but now we export 98% of our energy to the Americans at massive price discounts, and that puts us at the tender mercy of Donald Trump and the Americans.”

Poilievre promised to implement a “one-stop shop” for project applications and environmental reviews, to avoid projects getting mired in decades of bureaucracy — with wait-times capped at one year, with the hopes to approve projects within six months.

Poilievre also promised to liberate 10 projects from approval purgatory, including the second phase of the massive multi-company LNG Canada project in Kitimat, B.C.

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