Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦<p>This afternoon, I rose in the Senate to speak to Bill C-5, particularly the Building Canada Act. In this speech I tried to contextualize my concerns about what this bill, which fast-tracks "projects of national interest" could mean for environmental protection, Indigenous rights, and project certainty. And I tell Albertans bluntly that no one will build a pipeline in the shadow of separatist threats. <a href="https://youtu.be/vsYGr8O3BAM?si=8WqtMch1DpluIwSG" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/vsYGr8O3BAM?si=8WqtMc</span><span class="invisible">h1DpluIwSG</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/SenateofCanada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SenateofCanada</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/C5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>C5</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/C69" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>C69</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ableg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ableg</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Alberta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alberta</span></a></p>