Anonymousabout 2 hours ago
Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is proposing sweeping legislation to compress federal project review timelines from over five years to one year, building on the Building Canada Act passed in 2025. The reforms target the Impact Assessment Act, the Fisheries Act, and other statutes, consolidating multiple approval processes into a single review — but face sharp opposition from Indigenous leaders, environmental groups, and legal experts who warn the changes undermine constitutionally protected consultation rights and risk repeating the mistakes of the Harper-era deregulation of 2012.