Conversations That Matter: Build, baby, build!

In an odd way, it’s as though Prime Minister Mark Carney borrowed a card from President Donald Trump when he pushed through Bill C-5.

The prime minister announced the concept of the bill on June 6 and 20 days later, it passed in the House and Senate. That’s way faster than the U.S. president’s passing of his “Big Beautiful Bill.”

Bill C-5 has been framed as a national plan to “remove federal barriers to interprovincial trade and improve labour mobility.”

“Bill C-5 also sends a signal that Canada is open for business,” said Radha Curpen of McMillan LLP says. “It is a bill designed to improve efficiencies in approval processes. The biggest question is, will it also respect indigenous rights?”

Curpen joined a Conversation That Matters about the upsides and the concerns about Bill C-5. See the video at vancouversun.com/tag/conversations-that-matter.

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Join us Sept. 16 for Conversations Live , Investing in B.C. in Partnership with First Nations.