❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️🇨🇦 Guilbeault Speaks Out After Resignation
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Guilbeault knew the oil and gas cap was likely on its way out, especially after its fate was signalled in the federal budget. But carving out an exemption for Alberta on clean electricity regulations and the oil tanker ban on BC’s coast, while allowing government funds earmarked for carbon capture to be used to help companies extract even more oil, were three daggers to the heart of the country’s climate efforts he couldn’t live with.
The enhanced oil recovery tax credit was especially egregious to Guilbeault — particularly because of promises that had just been made to help pass Carney’s budget.
The budget “explicitly mentioned that we're excluding enhanced oil recovery from the tax credit,” Guilbeault said — a demand from Green Party Leader Elizabeth May that Guilbeault had communicated to Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne as her red line. “Then Elizabeth votes for us with the budget, and then, we turn around two weeks later, barely, and we include this in the MOU with Alberta.
I told that to the PMO and said, ‘This is unacceptable, I gave my word to Elizabeth, we gave our word as a party to Elizabeth, and we're betraying our word to her.’”
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/03/news/steven-guilbeault-cabinet-exit-interview
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