Overview
- MPs voted 196–139 to reject a Conservative motion urging support for a West Coast bitumen pipeline and an adjustment to the 2019 tanker moratorium, with Liberal, Bloc Québécois and NDP MPs opposed.
- The Conservatives revised their non-binding motion to add MOU language on carbon capture, Indigenous consultation and engagement with B.C., but ministers dismissed it as a political stunt.
- Alberta’s legislature unanimously endorsed the federal–provincial memorandum of understanding, formally backing the deal as a step toward a potential pipeline.
- Coastal First Nations, including Gitga’at leaders who met Alberta’s Indigenous relations minister, reiterated opposition to any weakening of the tanker ban and to a pipeline to the north coast.
- The MOU ties any project to Indigenous co-ownership, Pathways carbon capture, higher industrial carbon pricing and methane targets, and contemplates adjusting the tanker ban if necessary, yet no private proponent has come forward and any vote in Ottawa was non-binding.