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Pipeline or Pipe Dream?

December 10, 2025

With his “nation building” Bill C-5 the Prime Minister promised Canadians that he would prioritize projects that are in the national interest. On two occasions (Sept. 11th and Nov. 13th) with great anticipation, the PM unveiled additions to the Major Projects Office (MPO) list – unfortunately he proposed nothing for Alberta.

Finally, after much speculation, the Government of Alberta accepted a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Ottawa, which is a step in the right direction.

However, given that the Liberals have yet to announce a plan to repeal any of their “keep it in the ground” legislation like Bills C-69 and C-48 that killed production, jobs, and chased millions of dollars of investment out of Alberta and Canada, Conservatives remain skeptical about their true intentions. Without the reversal of those Bills, there is no certainty for potential investors.

The MOU does not promise that a pipeline will be built. A lot of things would have to go right for it to come to fruition. Alberta would have to find a private investor and achieve Indigenous buy-in before any plan be submitted to the MPO for consideration. And on top of all that, BC’s NDP Premier David Eby would still effectively hold veto power over the project. Premier Eby has been clear that a pipeline through BC will go ahead over his dead body, saying, “it will never be built,” and “I am not in favour of shipping raw bitumen through our coast by lifting the oil tanker ban.”

So, after all of the Prime Minister’s bluster about ‘building now’ and moving at ‘unimaginable speeds’, eight months later, we have nothing but more paper shuffling and press conferences.

Conservatives are, of course, happy that Premier Smith successfully forced the Prime Minister to concede on some of his other costly environmental policies. Thanks to Premier Smith, Carney will be eliminating the Oil and Gas Emissions Cap, exempting Alberta from the Clean Electricity Regulations (pending a new system), making an “appropriate adjustment” to the federal Oil Tanker Moratorium Act on B.C.’s north coast, and the scrapping his “greenwashing” provisions in the federal Competition Act.

To see if the Prime Minister is actually serious about a new pipeline, Conservatives introduced a motion this week which took statements directly from the MOU and allowed them to be voted on. Every single Liberal, including the Member for Calgary Confederation voted against a pipeline to the Pacific! No one should really be surprised because this is exactly who they are: anti-energy, anti-pipeline, and anti-Alberta prosperity.

Mr. Carney only needs to do one thing for a pipeline to happen: just get out of the way! Conservatives are calling for a repeal of the industrial carbon tax, a permit for a pipeline, and for the unblocking of billions of dollars of private sector energy investment needed to build pipelines.

Conservatives will keep fighting to boost Canadian paycheques; make energy, food and homes affordable, and our economy self-reliant, secure, and sovereign.

Sign the Conservative petition to stop blocking pipelines here.