Call your MP about Alberta’s pipeline ploy
Speak out against fossil fuel expansion. Support a sustainable future
In November 2025, Prime Minister Mark Carney made a damaging deal with Alberta to fast-track a new diluted bitumen oil pipeline to British Columbia’s coast while rolling back key environmental protections. This pipeline would lock Canada into deeper dependence on a declining, high-polluting industry and put North Pacific ecosystems and coastal First Nations at risk from increased tanker traffic and catastrophic oil spills.
Global events and the price at the pump expose the problems with fossil fuel dependence. Yet instead of using this moment to accelerate the clean electricity transition, Ottawa is doubling down with a series of pro-pipeline moves:
- Offering to declare Alberta’s pipeline proposal a “national interest project” and refer it to the federal government’s Major Projects Office
- Delaying planned increases to the industrial carbon price — reaching $130 a tonne only by 2040 — a full decade behind the previous federal schedule
- Creating loopholes to important environmental laws that protect endangered species, ecosystems and us
- Handing oil and gas companies billions in subsidies and letting them pocket over a 100 million a day in war profits
These federal government decisions will make fossil fuel elite richer. But we’ll still be paying the gas price while climate change increases risks to our health and homes.
There’s still time to stop this pipeline ploy and choose a fossil fuel–free future. Alberta intends to submit its pipeline proposal to the federal government’s Major Projects Office by July 1, 2026 and they want construction to begin as early as September 2027. We can’t let this happen.
Place a call to your MP. Tell them you oppose expanding fossil fuel infrastructure that locks Canada into polluting energy while the world goes electric.
Your voice matters! MPs pay attention to constituent calls and have influence in Ottawa.
Some talking points to think about while you’re on your call:
- I’m firmly opposed to Alberta’s proposal to fast-track a new oil pipeline while sacrificing environmental protections.
- I don’t want my tax dollars used to fast-track a pipeline that puts at risk a $2- billion coastal tourism industry and fishery economy that feeds families.
- Canada should be strengthening protections for sensitive ecosystems and the climate, not propping up the fossil fuel industry at nature’s expense.
- This isn’t a matter of selecting a “better” route for a pipeline. Shifting to different communities and ecosystems merely shifts who and what bear the risk. The best pipeline route is the one that doesn’t get built.
- There are better ways to strengthen Canada — such as building an east-west electricity grid powered by affordable renewable energy.
- Real nation-building projects will advance climate objectives, protect nature, uphold Indigenous rights and create long-term prosperity.
- I hope you will speak out against this pipeline and pass my concerns along to decision-makers in Ottawa.