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Today is an important day in the House of Commons. Today Parliament will vote on the Conservative Canada Sovereignty Act.

What is the Canada Sovereignty Act?

This Canada Sovereignty Act propose the following:
(a) re-establishes Canada as a competitive resource-producing nation by repealing federal measures that block or penalize development, including,
(i) the Impact Assessment Act (formerly Bill C-69),
(ii) the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act (formerly Bill C-48),
(iii) the federal industrial carbon tax,
(iv) the oil and gas emissions cap,
(v) the federal electric vehicle sales mandate,
(vi) the federal plastics manufacturing prohibitions,
(vii) federal regulatory restrictions that impede communication and advocacy by Canadian energy companies;
(b) rewards provinces, businesses, and workers who build and invest in Canada by,
(i) introducing a Canada First Reinvestment Tax Cut to spur domestic industrial activity,
(ii) providing free trade bonuses to provincial governments that remove internal trade barriers and fully open their markets to fellow Canadians; and
(c) protects Canadian innovation by requiring the Minister of Industry to present plans to Parliament to keep Canada's inventions, discoveries and innovations from being sold off to other countries.

Why is this important? As Prime Minister Carney likes to say – “we need to focus on things we can control” as it is obvious we cannot control the events that occur in the United States and elsewhere. On this point I agree strongly with our Prime Minister and all the measures proposed in the Canada Sovereignty Act are all things we can control.

The good news for Canadians is that the Liberals also agree that we need to do more to get our resources to new markets. That is why the Liberals created Bill C-5, “the One Canadian Economy Act” which created new powers that allow Prime Minister Carney and his cabinet the ability to politically pick certain projects to essentially bypass or ram through the existing regulatory process.

Although the Conservatives supported the Liberals in passing this Bill, it was not our preferred option; however, it is in our national interest to see some projects proceed as quickly as possible, we viewed it as a step in the right direction. There are also challenges with this approach: Bill C-5 means that the Liberals will be using a political process to cherry pick projects that they believe should move forward.

This raises the obvious concern of partisan politics being involved where the Liberals political interests may come before the broader interests of Canadians. Our Conservative Official Opposition believes it makes more sense to remove the barriers in the first place so that proponents of projects can present themselves based on the merits of what is being proposed.

This approach is far less limiting than going through the political lens of the Liberal cabinet where backroom lobbying and other politically motived actions may influence what projects do or do not move forward through political direction.

For these reasons we believe eliminating barriers that restrict our resources from getting to new markets is a critically important step given our shared goal to diversify and find new markets beyond the United States. This is why we have proposed the Canada Sovereignty Act as our Conservative solution to this problem.

My question this week. What approach do you prefer – The Canada Sovereignty Act or the approach advocated in Bill C-5 the “The One Canadian Economy Act”?

Please join in on the ongoing discussion on my Facebook Page. Alternatively, I can be reached at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) or call toll-free 1-800-665-8711.

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Dan Albas is the Member of Parliament for the riding of Okanagan Lake West - South Kelowna, Shadow Minister for Transport and the Vice Chair of the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, Dan's riding includes the communities of Kelowna (Mission, South Kelowna & East Kelowna within specific boundaries), West Kelowna, Peachland, Summerland.
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