By the time you read this, Bill C-5 may already have been rammed through Parliament, as the deadline set by the Liberal government in an unusual motion was to limit debate to just 5 days — meaning they want the bill passed by June 20, 2025, then sent to Senate for approval. Retired energy economist and former public servant, Robert Lyman, has raised red flags. Though lots of people think Bill C-5 — 'An Act to enact the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act and the Building Canada Act' — is about expediting pipelines, based on what I reveal herein, it is more about vacuuming out your wallet. Lyman’s concerns are laid out in this video explainer — “Building Canada Act” Faces 5 Day Deadline..Bill C-5 is titled the “One Canada Economy” Act and incorporates the “Building Canada Act.” The bill is supposed to tear down interprovincial barriers, facilitate the mobility of workers across Canada and create a single point of approval for major projects that are “in the national interest,” supposedly limiting approval times to just 2 years.Thus, the Liberal government, which for the past 10 years has created barriers for some $600 billion in hydrocarbon-related energy projects, which would have created tens of thousands of jobs, now claims that it is urgent that Bill C-5 be passed within 5 days due to Canada’s dire economic situation.We’ve all heard Prime Minister Mark Carney say, “We’re going to have to do things previously thought impossible at speeds not seen in generations.”.Does that mean that parliamentary and legislative due process must be scuttled?Parliamentary bills typically go to committee for several months of scrutiny. There’s a good reason for that. As Hans Rosling advises in his book “Factfulness,” “Fear plus urgency leads to stupid, drastic decisions with unpredictable side effects.”Most people are unaware that immediately after the G7 meetings this week, there are meetings in Europe on the €150 billion “SAFE” defence program. Then there is a NATO conference in The Hague June 24-25, 2025.Minister Melanie Joly is presently at the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, touting a new defence alliance between Bombardier and Safran and a closer alliance between Quebec and France. Canada is a member of La Francophonie and with Quebec a ‘member’ government and Ontario an ‘observer.'.There is a European Council meeting June 26-27, 2025, where Canada presumably could be drawn into the fold and join Europe... and subsequently a “Summer Davos” meeting of the “New Champions" in China, where the topics will be, “Deciphering the World Economy; Outlook on China; Industries Disrupted; Investing in People and Planet; New Energy and Materials.”During the G7 opening remarks, EU Council president Ursula von der Leyen signalled that non-European countries could join the “SAFE” defence program. It is no secret that Prime Minister Carney wants a closer relationship with Europe, despite the fact that some 78% of our trade is with our conjoined neighbour, the United States.Most people don’t know that NATO adopted climate change and “going green” as an overriding theme. There’s even a NATO Climate Change and Security Centre of Excellence in Montreal which you, dear taxpayers, are funding for a direct $40.4 million. How much kit would that money buy for our front-line soldiers who often have to pay for their own gear?.Aside from the fact that President Trump has pulled out of the Paris Agreement and all climate agreements going back to 1992, US Secretary of Defence, Pete Hegseth, has also outright trashed notions of climate ideology as part of the war machine. He calls it “crap,” affirming that the US military is into “war-fighting.” Further, rather than NATO seeking out bad actors, they are also keen to hunt down so-called “climate deniers” who it is claimed are funded by Russia.This would all be funny if not so sad..How does this relate to Bill C-5? Well, as BOOM Economics shows, the share price of renewables companies has been crashing over the past five years in companies around the world, including Brookfield Renewable. Can one presume that perhaps with some “Building Canada Act” impetus, the 66-Gigawatt offshore “Wind West” wind farm proposed by Premier Tim Houston of Nova Scotia, at a potential cost of $254-$364 billion [or 12% to 17% of Canada's entire 2024 GDP] might magically appear as a fundable project supposedly to “ensure energy security” in Canada? The dream of an east-west power grid has long been a Liberal platform, despite the fact that it is beyond expensive and might put Canada at risk of national blackouts like those experienced by Spain and Portugal on the very day that Mr. Net Zero was elected Prime Minister of Canada..At the G7, Prime Minister Carney proudly promoted the fact that the Canadian AI firm Cohere has MOUs with the UK and in Canada to further the development and security of AI. The fact that Canada just wrote them a $240,000,000 grant cheque on March 10, 2025 will no doubt lift their little sailboat. Ironically, AI demands huge amounts of electrical power. Thanks to Net Zero ideology, UK power prices are the highest in the world and the UK teeters on the brink of blackout. In Canada, we don’t have enough grid power for the present EV mandate, and Schneider Electric’s recent summary report on grid reliability in the US indicates looming shortfalls. Canada and the US rely on each other for load balancing. With the Clean Electricity Standards imposed by 2035, Canada will be powerless to run AI at any scale (unless a secret verboten natural gas plant is set up to uniquely serve a company’s demands).You get the point, no? Ramming through Bill C-5 will give the Carney government a literal blank cheque to play world leader with many “pet Net Zero” projects in the next few weeks, on AI, defence, renewables and whatever other mad scheme comes to mind. All with your money and no parliamentary oversight.
