Carney, Eby and Ford should cool their deregulatory rush – Indigenous Watchdog

June 10, 2025

Canada’s National Observer: Canada is weakening environmental safeguards and threatening relationships with the country’s First Nations in a mad rush to generate new resource-extraction developments. If steps aren’t taken quickly to bring First Nations onside with major projects, Canada should prepare for strained relations and a barrage of court injunctions and blockades with enormous power to slow industry.

Since the trade war began, the feds and governments of BC and Ontario have hastily proposed or passed bills to speed resource development, downgrading environmental protection in the process. And while all three governments still promise to meet Indigenous consultation requirements, none obtained buy-in from First Nations before the bills were presented.

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