Carney government wants more leeway for national interest projects that kill protected birds, The federal government wants to allow Prime Minister Mark Carney’s “national interest projects” to kill or harm protected birds as collateral damage in otherwise legal activities, as long as builders take “reasonable” steps to limit the impacts By Alex Ballingall Toronto Star, Nov. 10, 2026
OTTAWA — The federal government wants to create a new permit system to allow Prime Minister Mark Carney’s “national interest projects” to kill or harm protected birds as collateral damage in otherwise legal activities, as long as builders take “reasonable” steps to limit the impacts. 
They’ll say they do, or they’ll say their promise to, or they’ll say they will commit to, but never do in reality.
The proposal was floated in a government publication on Friday, as part of a broader set of changes being considered for federal migratory birds regulations that pare supposed to rotect a long list of species including Canada geese to great blue herons, some ducks and songbirds.
While at least one prominent conservation group voiced concern about the proposal, including questions about what could be defined as “reasonable” measures to prevent damage, others said they support the creation of a system that could police the incidental killing of protected birds that is already happening anyway. So many fucking Nazis cheering Carney’s cruel religious carnage on.
“If it was something that was upheld regularly, then it would be a significant rollback,” said Rachel Plotkin, boreal project manager with the David Suzuki Foundation.
“Because the landscape of the implementation of the Migratory Birds (Convention) Act is so weak, at least acknowledging it is something,” she added. Fucking synergizing enablers!
David Browne, senior vice-president for conservation and policy at Birds Canada, said that while he is concerned the broader government plan to fast-track major projects — including through special powers to bypass regulations — could harm birds, the new permit system makes sense. That’s because, by formalizing permits, the government could create more oversight that encourages industry to try harder to avoid accidentally killing birds. OH FFS! More fucking disgusting enabling of Carney’s massive give aways and deregulation for mostly American Nazi corps.
“Hundreds of millions of birds are killed annually incidentally,” Browne said. “For some sectors and some industries and some projects, we need actual rules and regulations, and the permits are a way of doing it.”Fucking traitor. We have actual rules and regulations! Carney is deregulating fucking everything to make it easier for the super rich to destroy Canada and harm and or murder the beings that live here, or migrate to and from here. How much money did this NGO get for this gross betrayal?
Open for a month of public feedback, the proposal seeks to change current regulations that don’t allow for the “unintentional but foreseeable killing or harm of migratory birds” during legal activities like cutting down trees or flooding land. The new proposal calls this a “regulatory gap” in the existing rules that stakeholdersrich fucking corporations, mostly American Nazi have flagged.
As a “first step” in addressing this, the government wants to create new permits for “national interest” projects fast-tracked under the Carney government’s Building Canada Act, a designation that has so far been granted to the planned Pacific Link pipeline from Alberta and the expansion of the Roberts Bank terminal in Delta, B.C., from which the pipeline oil is slated to be shipped.and is sure to wipe out the local orcas and likely salmon too.
The new permits would let project proponents take actions that result in “the killing, injuring or harassment of migratory birds,” and the “destruction” or “disturbance” of eggs and nests, the proposal says. Such authorization would require builders to take “all reasonable measures” to “avoid and minimize” harm to the birds, their nests and eggs.translation: say “we commit to” or “we promise” bla bla fucking useless bla, while gleefully mass slaughtering.
The proposal also seeks to create permits for “hazing” activities to scare protected birds away from potential harm near “industrial or commercial operations,” and exemptions to regulations for actions taken to scare them away from emergencies like oil spills. A separate exemption from regulations is being considered for public safety measures — like fighting a wildfire — that kill or harm birds, the proposal says.
Amy Falkner, a spokesperson for Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin, said in an emailed statement that the proposal is meant to “provide greater clarity, flexibility and certainty for high-priority activities, while maintaining a balanced approach that ensures strong protections for migratory birds.”Fucking disgusting Nazi liar.
While environmental groups were aware of efforts underway to change rules to protect migratory birds, the new proposal for Carney’s major projects caught one prominent organization by surprise.
“We’re very concerned,” said Emily McMillan, the executive director of Nature Canada. McMillan said a key question is how the government intends to define “reasonable” measures to limit the damage to birds from major projects. I bet Carney will never define it, so as to give the rich the power to do as they murderously like, no consequences for their faster enhanced profit raping.
She added that she sees the proposed changes as part of a broader pattern in which the Carney government is compromising environmental protections in the name of economic development.
Several environmental groups are staging protests this week against Bill C-39. That legislation seeks to speed up federal reviews of projects like mines, ports, pipelines and more, with provisions to allow construction to begin before approval is granted, as well as for the creation of special regions where proposed developments could be streamlined. Aka, deregulate to no regs at all!
“We’re worried that there’s a pattern that looks like an extinction agenda,” McMillan said. “You can’t just bulldoze nature.” Carney and his Nazi boss Harper, want to bring on the end of life on earth, because they stupidly think that will get them into heaven. Religious terrorist idiots.
Tara Shea, vice-president of regulatory and Indigenous affairs with the Mining Association of Canada, also welcomed the proposal as a good step towards creating a compliance system for “incidental” harms to birds that — despite best efforts of companies in the industry — are unavoidable.
That’s why she hopes the government extends the new permits beyond “national interest projects.”Unfucking believable. Her comments prove to me how murderous and Nature decimating Carney and his Nazis are.
“I think it would give Environment Canada and the public a better line of sight (into) the good practices that are going on across the country, and then making sure that … everyone’s meeting that good standard as well,” she said.OMG, dastardly greed and evil.
The government says it is taking public feedback on the proposal until Dec. 6.
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@zaitozaatar.bsky.social:
The environment minister is Julie Dabrusin who has given cover to genocide and repeated CIJA talking points verbatim. It is no wonder that she is supporting the torching of our environment.
Finally a piece of reporting that puts her picture up.. and doesn’t fully shield her.
@204queenb0574.bsky.social:
The Liberals are governing for the CIJA along with big oil and big tech. Brookfield is invested in Israel and Ukraine, which explains the differing responses to their respective government’s actions.
@204queenb0574.bsky.social:
This is them beginning to erode our laws to suit one province. I am so sick of Smith Harper and Carney playing us all for fools.
To serve Nazi USA/Israel, and the rich that invest in mass murder and destruction (aka war and or genocide), Carney of course made this Stellantis fiasco happen. Carney and his Harper Nazis do not give a shit about workers, or clean safe climate, air, land, water, or our charter or life on earth. They only care about making more money for the rich and their own corrupt asses
@bhaggart.eurosky.social:
“Despite the public dismay conveyed by Carney and Joly on Tuesday, sources said the federal government had been engaging directly with both companies, knew the terms of the proposed sale and did not stand in the way of it.”
The cognitive dissonance this government creates is exhausting.To exhaust and depress is the intent
@conorcurtis.bsky.social:
Expect a wave of privatization & cuts hidden by dubious decade-long-plans-to-set-a-path-to-‘end-homelessness’ enabling the privatization of healthcare and further integration with the U.S.: Herr Harper’s big goal was to destroy Canada’s public health care to give to his pals in USA private for profit health murder (aka care). Our health care creates $200 Billion annually for Canadians’ health. American corporations want that money for themselves, and Smith, Ford, and the other provincial cons, and Con man Carney are eager to provide
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And a ton of public money wasted on AI/oil/gas and restricted individual freedoms.