One week after 40+ communities mobilized to call on the federal government to make a deal with the people, the Prime Minister made a clear choice. He decided to double down on protecting Big Oil’s profits instead of prioritizing our communities, our climate, and our future. Let’s break down what happened over the last 24 hours: Prime Minister Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith teamed up to unveil their plans for their West Coast Pipeline. They proposed dragging the one-million-barrel-a-day tar sands pipeline from Alberta all the way to the Delta port right outside of Vancouver. They confirmed the pipeline would be another publicly-owned project, with an extremely unclear private-sector partnership. In other words, we can get ready to expect $35-100 billion of our tax payer dollars wasted on building this dangerous pipe dream. Earlier that same day, Carney went to BC, striking a New Cooperative Prosperity partnership with BC Premier Eby and pledging to gut environmental protections to accelerate the expansion of LNG facilities.4 Canada is headed in a dangerous direction. Expanding tar sands and the fracked-gas industry is like pouring fuel on the flames of the climate emergency. Let’s make sure our Members of Parliament know that they need to stand up to oppose this agenda. Call on your MP to sign the People’s MOU and say no to new pipelines. There’s power in raising our voices together. The People’s MOU was delivered to 40+ MPs across the country last week and, since then, thousands of others have e-mailed it to their Members of Parliament. We know that many Liberal MPs also have their doubts about Prime Minister Carney backsliding on climate. That’s why it’s so important to ensure as many of them as possible are confronted by their constituents and pushed to use their leverage in this fragile majority government to champion a different direction. This week, heatwaves gripped communities across the country as we marked the 5 year anniversary of the 2021 Heat Dome where 619 people died from extreme heat. And yet, Prime Minister Carney kicked off the week with a special video speaking directly to Canadians and sharing that climate action isn’t ‘sustainable in the long run.’ But you and I both know, what’s truly unsustainable is expanding fossil fuels and cooking our planet. And to top it all off, the world is rapidly transitioning towards affordable, renewable energy, meaning that building a new oil pipeline locks us into a volatile, dead-end economy. It’s time to stop fuelling climate destruction and funding our future. Tell your MP to back this vision. The good news is that the odds are in our favour. Even pipeline companies aren’t ready to fully back the project because they know it’s a bad idea. We also know that Indigenous-led resistance and people power can bring dangerous proposals like this to a halt. We did it before and we can do it again. Blog by Atiya Jaffar, 350 Canada Country Manager The post Carney wants to gamble away our future appeared first on 350.