Feds leave 99 per cent of lakes, rivers unprotected

There is no clear commitment from the Trudeau government to put pipeline or powerline reviews for these waterways back into the Navigation Protection Act.

Transport Minister Marc Garneau, pictured last year, tabled the government’s response to the House Transport Committee's report on the Navigation Protection Act on June 20. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY EMMA LUI

June 28, 2017

The list of broken election promises by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is growing longer, with another one added last week. Last Tuesday, the Trudeau government tabled its response to the House Committee on Transport, Infrastructure, and Communities’ recommendations on the Navigatio...

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