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Q&A | Elizabeth May on Carney’s major projects’ ‘get-out-of-jail-free card’

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Bill C-5 ‘is 100 per cent about unfettered political discretion exercised by cabinet,’ says the Green leader.

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says the Liberals should 'think twice' about Bill C-5 and 'giving this kind of wide open political discretion to potentially a different government and a different prime minister.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

June 16, 2025

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s proposed major projects legislation is styled as a “get-out-of-jail-free card” that is “trampling” on Indigenous and environmental rights, says Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.

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