A coalition of Canada’s leading environmental, nature and climate organizations sent an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney and key Cabinet ministers calling on the federal government to adopt seven clear, transparent criteria for determining which projects are truly in the national interest under the Building Canada Act (Bill C-5).
The letter points to projects like high-speed rail, renewable energy and inter-provincial transmission, clean drinking water and telecommunications services in Indigenous communities as true nation-building efforts, not pipelines that put coasts at risk and pit communities against each other.
The letter was signed by West Coast Environmental Law, Nature Canada, East Coast Environmental Law, Canadian Environmental Law Association, David Suzuki Foundation, Ecojustice Canada, Équiterre, Ecology Action Centre and Environmental Defence Canada.