(Ottawa) The Prime Minister of Ontario, Doug Ford, Presse François Legault to allow the passage of an oil pipeline in Quebec to allow the export of Albertan oil. He made these remarks on Waving in Washington on Wednesday between Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and US President Donald Trump.
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“I strongly encourage Prime Minister Legault to pass this pipeline through Quebec,” said Ford in a press scrum when he left a virtual discussion between his federal, provincial and territorial counterparts.
Prime Minister Carney told them about his discussions with Donald Trump.
“According to the latest survey I saw, around 70 % of people want this pipeline,” added the Ontario Prime Minister. It will therefore help the whole country. We no longer need to depend as much on the United States. It would change the situation. »»
A SOM survey carried out for The press In February revealed that the threat of pricing war with the United States had changed the opinion of Quebecers on energy projects as an energy is. After having vigorously rejected them, a high proportion of them considers today that they should be resuscitated.
Support for an oil pipeline like that of energy is, which would cross southern Quebec to transport oil from the bituminous sand from Alberta to New Brunswick, then reached 59 %. The project was abandoned in 2017.
-During his visit to Ottawa, a few days before the outbreak of the federal electoral campaign, Prime Minister François Legault had opened the door to a pipeline project provided that there is social acceptability in Quebec. He had added the attitude of Quebecers to the same breath on this issue was changing.
This is not the first time that Mr. Ford, who chairs the Federation Council this year, pleads for the construction of a oil pipeline in the past weeks.
“I have strengthened my support for Alberta and Saskatchewan with force because they have been ignored over the past ten years. To be frank, they were treated appallingly, “he said on Wednesday when he was questioned about the separation of Alberta from the rest of the country.
Prime Minister Danielle Smith is committed to holding a referendum on the future of her province in the Canadian Federation if a sufficient number of citizens claimed by signing a petition as provided for in the Alberta law.
She tabled a bill the day after the election of a fourth liberal government in Ottawa to lower the number of signatures required from citizens registered on the electoral list from 20 % to 10 % to request a referendum on a constitutional question such as independence. The organizers of the petition would also have 120 days instead of 90 days to obtain these signatures.
Prime Minister Ford has appealed to national unity. “I always say that union is strength, division falls. It was my message today. Let’s continue to unite the country and not to divide it, “he said.
