Is Carney pushing too hard to speed up project approvals?
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Is Carney pushing too hard to speed up project approvals?

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 25, 202622 min
  • Politics
  • About Canada

The Liberals move to ram through accelerated major project approvals as unions push back over workers' rights. B.C.’s snap election call: prudent response to Trump's trade threats or opportunistic fear-mongering? And the possible strategy behind the PM's comments to the New York Times about a possible U.S. invasion. Rosemary Barton hosts Chantal Hébert, Andrew Coyne and Althia Raj.

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Hey there, I'm Rosemary Barton this week on At Issue, the podcast edition for Thursday, September 24th. It's making the federal government decisions much more efficient. A lead decider, a lead regulator, not multiple ones that decide after each other.

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