Tanker ban Bill C-48 ‘discriminatory and divisive,’ says Senate report, but ISG Senators criticize committee chair behind it

‘Your committee believes that Bill C-48 is a case of bait and switch,’ says the report from the Senate Transport Committee.

Transport Minister Marc Garneau's bill to make a voluntary moratorium on oil tanker traffic off the B.C. coast permanent faces a Senate vote that could kill the bill, possibly as soon as Tuesday afternoon. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

June 4, 2019

A report from the Senate Transport Committee slams the government’s bill to ban oil tankers from the northern B.C. coast, calling it “economically irresponsible” and “an affront to common sense” to ban tankers out West while allowing commercial ship traffic o...

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