{"id":417077,"date":"2025-09-12T00:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T00:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/417077\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T00:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T00:09:14","slug":"canada-carney-unveils-array-of-national-projects-to-turbocharge-economy-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/417077\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada: Carney unveils array of national projects to \u2018turbocharge\u2019 economy | Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada\u2019s Liberal government has said that a liquefied natural gas facility, critical mineral mines, a nuclear reactor and port expansion will mark the first wave of major national projects to \u201cturbocharge\u201d the country\u2019s economy as it fends off a trade war with the United States.<\/p>\n

Notably, the list unveiled by the prime minster, Mark Carney<\/a>, on Thursday does not include any new oil pipelines \u2013 projects which have proven to be deeply divisive and politically fractious in recent years.<\/p>\n

An expansion of LNG Canada\u2019s Kitimat facility on the Pacific coast, which will in effect double the plant\u2019s annual export capacity to 28m tonnes, is among the biggest supported by the Liberal government, which has pledged to invest heavily in \u2013 and speed \u2013 up permits for \u2013 projects deemed in the national interest.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe path ahead will not always be easy, because what\u2019s happening now in the global economy is not a transition \u2013 it is a rupture,\u201d said Carney. \u201cThe United States is fundamentally and rapidly transforming all of its trading relationships, and the effects are both immediate and profound.\u201d<\/p>\n

The announcement is an attempt to fend off economic threats from Donald Trump, the US president, whose trade war with one of his closest allies has threatened to plunge the Canadian economy into a recession. Carney said the projects would add C$60bn (US$43bn) to the country\u2019s economy and create \u201ctens of thousands\u201d of new jobs.<\/p>\n

The liquified natural gas project is a shift for Liberals. Under former prime minister Justin Trudeau, senior ministers were publicly skeptical of the economic case for exporting Canadian LNG across the Atlantic. But in recent months, Carney\u2019s government has met with European officials to pitch Canadian LNG exports.<\/p>\n

The other projects announced on Thursday were a small modular reactor at Ontario\u2019s Darlington nuclear facility, a Quebec port expansion and two mines \u2013 all of which Carney framed as having reduced environmental impacts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe used to build big things in this country, and we used to build them quickly,\u201d said Carney. \u201cIt\u2019s time to get back at it, and it\u2019s time to get on with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The absence of a major oil pipeline is expected to kick off fierce partisan attacks. Earlier in the summer, the federal Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre, said a Tory government would \u201clegalize\u201d pipelines and said the Carney government was \u201cgoing in the exact wrong direction\u201d.<\/p>\n

Danielle Smith, the Alberta premier, has said for months her government wants to see a new pipeline that would move oil to the Pacific. On Wednesday, she downplayed the lack of a pipeline.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a little bit of work to do to be able to get to an environment where oil companies want to expand their production,\u201d she told reporters.<\/p>\n

The largest hurdle for a pipeline project, in addition to provincial opposition and emission caps, is the lack of support from the private sector.<\/p>\n

Amid a continent-wide push for economic nationalism, the absence of a pipeline nonetheless comes in stark contrast to Trump, who has pledged to revive the Keystone XL pipeline.<\/p>\n

Carney\u2019s push to fast-track major projects \u2013 and the speed with which his government passed the accompanying legislation, Bill C-5 \u2013 has prompted concern from Indigenous leaders<\/a> that communities will not be properly consulted or their rights fully respected in the process. Carney spent the summer meeting with First Nations, Inuit and M\u00e9tis leadership in an attempt to allay such concerns.<\/p>\n

In June, Trevor Mercredi, grand chief of the Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta, said C-5 \u201cexposes Canada\u2019s preferred strategy when dealing with Treaty Peoples: not through partnership or reconciliation, but through legislative fatigue \u2013 imposing policy knowing it will take us years to fight it in court\u201d.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the government announced that Mercredi, a critic of Bill C-5, would be appointed to the Indigenous advisory council that will advise on the implementation legislation.<\/p>\n

A second round of projects is expected in November. But even though the list includes a windfarm, a port upgrade, a carbon capture project and high-speed rail, there are again no pipelines.<\/p>\n

Environmental groups expressed skepticism over the projects. Greenpeace said the list was \u201ccreating a false narrative around\u201d the idea of national interest.<\/p>\n

Caroline Brouillette, executive director of Climate Action Network Canada, said the plans included \u201csome dangerous initiatives that further entrench us in Trump\u2019s dream of an uncompetitive, volatile and fossil-fuelled North American economy\u201d and warned: \u201cHow big things get built also matters. Unfortunately, the Building Canada Act seems to assume that premiers and C-suite executives are the only voices that need to be listened to in order to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Liberal government has said that a liquefied natural gas facility, critical mineral mines, a nuclear reactor and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-417077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115188424293657683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}