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Have your belated consultations jeopardized the goal of getting new projects built?
Jul 18, 2025
Have your belated consultations jeopardized the goal of getting new projects built?
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Hi, Prime Minister. Heather Wright, CTV
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News. Uh, you've said that the purpose
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of Bill C5 is in part to speed up
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approvals for major national projects,
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and as you know, the bill is now being
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challenged in court by First Nations.
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Um, have your belated consultations
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jeopardized the goal of getting new
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projects built?
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Uh, well, first, uh, no. Um uh first
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thing is that um we the bill literally
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um just received well in the last few
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weeks as you know uh received royal
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ascent so became law. The bill and the
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law as it now is is enabling
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legislation.
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The first thing it enables is
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consultations about what are we actually
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talking about when we say nation
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building projects. Um and tomorrow uh
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the first part of that engagement it's
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not a consultation tomorrow but the
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first part of that engage in fact it
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starts this afternoon in Ottawa uh with
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uh a series of uh first nations rights
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holders other uh interested uh first
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nations groups uh including the AFN
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obviously um is that engagement about
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the modalities how this how this can
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work how we work together what are the
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priorities that's before any
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consultation on any specific project or
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types projects. Um, and also before even
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if there is a project or when there is
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projects identified, consultations
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around the conditions around those
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projects that must be fulfilled for them
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to be uh to be built. uh and a moving
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force from
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