Mark Carney Admitted We Were Right

It’s not every day the Prime Minister admits you were right!

But this weekend, Prime Minister Mark Carney said something that stopped us in our tracks.

First, when asked about building a new oil pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast, he had the following to say:

“I would think, given the scale of the economic opportunity, the resources we have, the expertise we have, that it is highly, highly likely that we will have an oil pipeline that is a proposal for one of these projects of national interest.

It’s highly, highly likely that that will be the case. And the only reason why I don’t say it definitively is this is not a top-down approach from the federal government saying, ‘We want this, we want that.’"

But, it was the next few lines that really got our attention:

“We’ve moved over the course of the last few months from people talking about it conceptually to starting to get more concrete. It’s not all the way there. There’s not a specific proposal in front of us right now.”

“I understand why that’s the case, given the history of the last few years. But my sense is there’s real momentum moving, and that’s very encouraging.”

Let’s be clear about what this means:

Carney just admitted that - as we have always said - there is, in fact, a business case for pipelines.

For years, we were told by the Liberals that Canada didn’t need new pipelines.

They said that the economics didn’t make sense.

That we should just “transition” away from oil.

But now that the political winds are shifting, and provinces like Alberta and Ontario are stepping up, Carney is changing his tune.

He's now admitting that it was the Liberal government's own policies that led to the uncertainty that deterred projects from getting built.

And he now realizes that he will have to do something to turn that around.

That's a huge shift, and it shows what happens when the facts become too obvious to ignore.

And it’s happening because of relentless pressure from people like you.

Thanks to growing public support for resource development - and the bold leadership of Premiers like Danielle Smith and Doug Ford - things are finally moving in the right direction.

Just this week, Alberta and Ontario signed new agreements to:

• Plan for an east-west pipeline built with Ontario steel,

• Connect it to a new deep-sea port on James Bay, and

• Study new rail lines between Ontario’s mineral-rich Ring of Fire and Alberta’s processing infrastructure and ports.

This is the exact kind of nation-building Project Confederation has been fighting for since the beginning.

And now that even the Prime Minister is admitting we were right, we must double down and make sure this momentum doesn’t get lost in Ottawa’s bureaucracy.

Project Confederation's job is to be ahead of the curve.

We're talking about the things that are already obvious to those of us on the ground, but which the politicians haven't noticed yet.

But if we do our jobs right, enough people will notice what we're talking about, and the politicians will be forced to get on board or get pushed out.

That’s why we need your help to keep the pressure on.

Let’s hold Prime Minister Carney to his word - and make sure this pipeline - and many more - actually get built.

Please chip in today:

For freedom and fairness,

- The Project Confederation Team

P.S. After years of delay and denial, Ottawa is finally admitting what we’ve said all along - that Canada's resources are vital, and pipelines make sense. Help us turn this rare admission into real results and donate today.