Ottawa and Alberta pencil in a pipeline date
5/16/202650 min
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney have made another stride in their important MOU: A new carbon pricing agreement that is far less than the targets set by Justin Trudeau. Is the deal enough to calm down separatists? Could it anger environmentalists within Carney's team? Ottawa bureau chiefs Tonda MacCharles of the Toronto Star and Stuart Thomson of the National Post lay out the stakes.
Plus, the House takes an in-depth look at whether the government should ban social media accounts for kids. We visit a high school to hear how teenagers feel about a ban; Anxious Generation research partner Ravi Iyer lays out what’s at stake if restrictions are not put in place; Meta’s Rachel Curran defends the company’s practices; tech company CEO Steve Borza describes how age verification technology works (or doesn’t); then Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew explains how his province’s social media and AI Chatbot ban for kids could work.
This episode features the voices of:
- Stuart Thomson, parliamentary bureau chief for the National Post
- Tonda MacCharles, Ottawa bureau chief for the Toronto Star
- Ravi Iyer, managing director of the University of Southern California Marshall School’s Neely Center and research partner with the Anxious Generation Movement
- Rachel Curran, head of public policy for Meta Canada
- Steve Borza, CEO of Bluink Ltd
- Wab Kinew, premier of Manitoba
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Tonda MacCharles· Guest0:29
[upbeat music] This is a CBC podcast.
Mark Carney· Soundbite0:33
There we go.
Speaker 40:35
Thanks.
Catherine Cullen· Host0:36
[applauds] So Mark Carney and Danielle Smith have signed the next phase of their energy deal, and this one is a doozy. There are a series of dates to get that new Alberta oil pipeline built while lowering the bar on the carbon tax, and the prime minister is still insisting it's a good plan for the environment.
Mark Carney· Soundbite1:00
So I've been an environmentalist, uh, you know, my career, UN special envoy on, uh, climate action. Those last two words, climate action. This is climate action. This is investment. This is moving forward.
Catherine Cullen· Host1:13
But some environmentalists say this deal is a betrayal. BC says it's rewarding the Alberta Premier's bad behavior. I'm Catherine Cullen, This Week on the House, we're gonna dig into the trade-offs and look at where this wild week leaves the push for Alberta to separate. Then,