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Posted May 14, 2025 7:30 am
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Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet with his new cabinet this morning.
The meeting is scheduled to take place at 10 a.m. Eastern on Parliament Hill.Carney shook up his cabinet Tuesday by moving some key players into new positions and promoting 24 new faces in a move meant to signal change at the top.While some members of his team were prominent figures in former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government — including Dominic LeBlanc, Mélanie Joly, Chrystia Freeland and François-Philippe Champagne — Carney froze out other prominent members of his predecessor’s cabinet.Carney named 28 full ministers to his cabinet and also appointed a second tier of 10 secretaries of state.
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The prime minister has dropped several cabinet veterans from the Trudeau years, including former natural resources minister Jonathan Wilkinson and former defence minister Bill Blair.
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Carney said he sought to balance new perspectives with experience in picking his team and noted half of the ministers are new to the front bench.
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Carney vowed Parliament will move at a rapid pace once it starts up again on May 26 and said his government will deliver on its promises with “urgency and determination.”Carney told reporters Tuesday that his government’s priorities include standing up to the U.S. and developing the “best possible” security and economic relationship.He said his government will build a single Canadian economy, “reinforce bridges” across labour, business and civil society and advance nation-building investments that will support the “core mission” of creating the strongest economy in the G7.— With files from Kyle Duggan
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Climate activists and energy leaders say Prime Minister Mark Carney will need to make some hard choices on whether to bolster the country’s oil and gas sector as means of achieving economic stability.
Throughout the election campaign, Carney signalled an openness to building more pipelines in Canada and promised to cut approval times to get projects built faster. He also acknowledged during the English leaders’ debate that having western Canadian oil flow through the United States to Ontario and Quebec presents a national security threat.But he also has said he wants to keep Canada’s emissions cap on oil and gas production in place, and to strengthen the industrial carbon price — policies the oil and gas sector has called on him to scrap.Carney also campaigned on making Canada a “world leader” in carbon capture and introducing investment tax credits to support clean energy and technology. Story continues below advertisement
While Carney said before the campaign he would keep the emissions cap in place, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has said the prime minister told her behind closed doors that he wasn’t in favour of hard caps.“We’ve heard Mr. Carney, in particular during the election campaign, adopt an ‘all of the above’ approach to energy and refusing to pick a lane between a cleaner, safer, renewable powered future and doubling down on the volatile fossil fuel status quo,” said Caroline Brouillette, executive director of Climate Action Network.“I think that in 2025 we don’t have the luxury of not picking a lane, both from an environmental side of things but also from an economic side of things.”
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And Carney doesn’t have the luxury of time either, said Adam Waterous, chairman of oil and gas producer Strathcona Resources. Story continues below advertisement
With the auto, steel and aluminum sectors reeling from U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, he said, Carney’s most powerful bargaining chip is Canada’s energy.
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“Donald Trump has been very, very consistent for nine years. He ran on this originally, and now he wants one thing from Canada. And it’s not fentanyl and illegal immigration, that’s a head-fake. He wants an agreement to build Keystone XL,” Waterous said.The Keystone XL project — a 1,900-kilometre pipeline that would have run from Hardisty, Alta., to the major U.S. crude storage hub at Cushing, Okla., and then on to Gulf Coast refineries — was first proposed during the Obama administration, which rejected it on environmental grounds.It was then revived under the first Trump administration before then-president Joe Biden killed it again by revoking the pipeline’s permit on his first day in the White House in 2021. At that point, the project’s proponent TC mothballed the project.
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Posting on his Truth Social account back in February, Trump called for the project to be resuscitated.“Now, the industry doesn’t want to build that,” Waterous said, adding the sector wants an east-west pipeline in order to diversify Canada’s oil and gas exports and reach overseas markets.
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The federal government could pursue the Keystone project on its own, Waterous said — but that could present a different roadblock.“The United States will not enter into an agreement with a state-owned enterprise because it is considered a non-tariff trade barrier as a subsidized entity. It has to be a private sector party,” Waterous said.But the project would be unlikely to get a private backer, he said, because “the energy sector doesn’t want to do this. They want to go east-west.”“The energy private sector would be doing this to shelter auto, steel and aluminum. So you see the irony in this dynamic.”—With files from Lauren Krugel in Calgary.
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A judicial recount is underway in a rural Newfoundland riding where the Liberals finished with a 12-vote lead.
The recount in the Terra Nova—The Peninsulas riding in central Newfoundland is one of four that Elections Canada ordered after last month’s federal election.Three of those recounts were automatically triggered because the winning margin was less than one one-thousandth of the valid votes cast in the riding.
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In Windsor-Tecumseh, Conservative Kathy Borrelli finished ahead of Liberal Irek Kusmierczyk by 77 votes — just above the threshold for an automatic recount — but an Ontario Superior Court judge last week ordered a review.
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Elections Canada said in an email it could be “a day or two” before the recount in Newfoundland determines whether Liberal Anthony Germain really did beat Conservative Jonathan Rowe.
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On Saturday, a recount in the Quebec riding of Terrebonne resulted in the Liberals winning by just one vote.The party now holds 170 seats in the House of Commons, two shy of the 172 needed for a majority government.
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government is freezing its industrial carbon price effective immediately at $95 per tonne of emissions.
Smith told reporters Monday the move is critical to keep industry competitive and defend jobs as Canada navigates a tariff fight with the United States.“With the change in government south of the border, it is essential that we have a reasonable carbon pricing system, not one that will price our industries out of global markets,” she said.The provincially set price was to rise to $110 per tonne in 2026 and increase to $170 per tonne by 2030.Alberta, which has had an industrial carbon tax scheme since 2007, collects the funds paid by industry and returns them in the form of grants for emissions reduction technology or industry innovation projects.Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz said industry had warned that any carbon price higher than $100 per tonne would be detrimental. Story continues below advertisement
“(It) is not a common sense approach at a time like this, where the threats from outside our borders are so great, and the world is looking for Canadian energy right now,” she said.Schulz said the freeze, which will be in place indefinitely, will benefit industries like agriculture, forestry, and petrochemicals as well as oil and gas.Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers president Lisa Baiton said she supports Alberta’s freeze, and called on the federal government to fully reset its carbon regulatory scheme.
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“Changes are necessary to establish a long-term signal to lock in investments and to reduce emissions, while remaining globally competitive,” Baiton said in a statement.
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Pathways Alliance president Kendall Dilling agreed, saying in an email that Canada’s carbon pricing system puts industry at a disadvantage when it comes to competing with companies in other jurisdictions.“This announcement signals recognition of the pressures on our sector’s competitiveness,” Dilling said.“Additional discussion is needed to enable an approach to carbon management that is effective and enables investment in our natural resources.”The alliance represents Canada’s largest oil sands companies working together to provide energy alongside environmental solutions.Smith and Schulz said they hope the freeze will prompt that very conversation with Prime Minister Mark Carney, who’s set to unveil his new cabinet Tuesday after last month’s federal election. Story continues below advertisement
Schulz told reporters that as a result of the freeze, Alberta will remain compliant with federal carbon pricing rules until Ottawa’s benchmark is increased.
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The prime minister’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Smith said the freeze doesn’t mean Alberta is giving up on its goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050, but said, “We have to be working with the federal government on having reasonable time frames as well as reasonable prices.”Critics disagree.Stephen Legault, a senior manager at the advocacy group Environmental Defence, said with less money going towards clean technology development, Alberta’s emissions target only moves further out of reach.“A lot of us would agree Alberta isn’t serious about hitting those targets,” Legault said.He also said an indefinite freeze suggests the announcement has less to do with the economic turmoil caused by American tariffs than it does appeasing the oil and gas sector that continues to make record profits.Janetta McKenzie from the Pembina Institute, a clean energy think tank, said she expects the freeze to lead to decreased investment in decarbonized industries.“We are going to need a leaner, cleaner oil and gas sector that is ready to compete in global markets, especially given most of our potential trading partners other than the U.S. are preparing to introduce new tariffs on energy imports that aren’t subjected to domestic carbon pricing regimes,” she said. Story continues below advertisement
Opposition NDP energy critic Nagwan Al-Guneid said the freeze creates uncertainty for industry rather than protect against it.“I think the biggest threat right now to our economic competitiveness is this flirtation with the separatist agenda, and not Alberta’s industrial carbon pricing,” Al-Guneid said.With files from Lisa Johnson, The Canadian Press.
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