Conservatives to force vote on motion backing pipeline before MPs deal with latest estimates – iPolitics
December 9th, 2025
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As the countdown to the end of the fall sitting shifts from weeks to days, the Conservatives will get one more chance to seize temporary control of the House agenda today — and, as previewed in What We’re Watching, they intend to use their final designated supply day to force a vote on a non-binding motion that, if adopted, would have the House collectively express its support for “the construction of one or more pipelines enabling the export of at least one million barrels a day of low-emission Alberta bitumen from a strategic deepwater port on the British Columbia coast to reach Asian markets, including through an appropriate adjustment to the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, while respecting the duty to consult Indigenous peoples.”
Although motion, which stands in the name of party leader Pierre Poilievre, lifts some of its language directly from the Memorandum of Understanding co-signed by Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in Calgary last month, it omits several key clauses, including the specification that the putative pipelines would be “private sector constructed and financed pipelines, with Indigenous Peoples co-ownership and economic benefits.”
