We **generally** try not to publish on Friday afternoons, but when something really matters we break our rule.
This is one of those. It's a bit wonky, but it's important, so please stick with us for a moment.
Remember when Harper gutted Canada's environmental laws? Well, the Trudeau government came up with a bill that would at least somewhat restore Canada's process for reviewing big industrial projects like oilsands projects, pipelines and mines.
Now the unelected Senate — under intense lobbying from the oil industry — has approved more than 180 controversial amendments to that legislation.
Experts describe the amendments as incoherent, badly drafted and an attempt to dodge climate change considerations. In fact they say the bill, as it stands now, would make our environmental assessment process worse than it was under Harper.
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