Natural Resources Canada has evolved into the Department of Oil and Gas

The question that looms larger all the time is how the hell did the fossil fuel lobby take over our government?

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna ignored the advice of an expert panel of environmental assessments before tabling the impact assessment bill, C-69, writes Elizabeth May. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ELIZABETH MAY

December 12, 2018

A few decades ago, the department now known as Natural Resources Canada was called Energy, Mines, and Resources. The department had robust analysis and did work on our energy sector, as well as mines, and substantial research and science and policy innovation in forestry. Under Stephen Harper, the ...

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