QUESTION PERIOD — Ministry of Natural Resources
Climate Change
October 9, 2025
Good afternoon, minister.
The major projects bill, Bill C-5, which we passed before the summer, contains five criteria for the selection of major projects. It also contains criteria for the measurement of the success of those projects, but there are only four of them. The fifth one, which was missing and inconsistent with the criteria, regards whether the projects contribute to clean growth and meeting Canada’s climate change objectives.
When will the government address this omission and restore the fifth item to the bill?
My understanding is that we have the same level of specificity on all five criteria. To more specifically answer your question, the Prime Minister has said we will be coming out with a climate competitiveness strategy in the fall — I think you’ll see that over the next few weeks — in which we will address that.
There was a commitment from the Government Representative to fix that, so perhaps the officials can look into it later.
