Senate committee changes tack, adds Alberta, Saskatchewan to C-48 study travel

There was ‘quite a backlash’ over the original plan to only go to B.C. for the oil tanker ban study, says Transport Committee chair Sen. David Tkachuk.

The Senate’s Transport and Communications Committee, chaired by Conservative Sen. David Tkachuk, will now be going to Alberta and Saskatchewan for its study of Bill C-48, which would ban oil tankers off B.C.'s north coast. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY CHARELLE EVELYN

April 10, 2019

The Senate committee studying the Liberals’ proposed oil tanker ban for northern British Columbia waters has reversed course, and will now travel to Prairie provinces as part of its work. The Transport and Communications Committee, which is studying Bill C-48, the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, was a...

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