Stop Calling Regulatory Gridlock ‘Environmental Stewardship’

Canada has spent years delaying projects in the name of the environment. The economic costs are becoming impossible to ignore.

Protesters disrupt the National Energy Board public hearing into the $15.7 billion Energy East pipeline project proposed by TransCanada, in Montreal on August 29, 2016. The Canadian Press/Paul Chiasson

Commentary

Canada cannot build a prosperous future if every major project becomes an endless regulatory exercise. Yet that is the logic behind much of the opposition to Ottawa’s proposed Strategy to Protect Nature.