Sitting 70 — December 9, 2025

A highly charged sitting centered on a Conservative opposition day motion calling on the House to support the construction of one or more pipelines enabling the export of at least one million barrels per day of Alberta bitumen from a deepwater port on the British Columbia coast. The motion used language drawn directly from the Canada-Alberta memorandum of understanding signed on November 27, 2025, but Conservatives stripped out the MOU's provisions on industrial carbon pricing, carbon capture, and clean electricity interties—prompting the Prime Minister to accuse the Opposition of cherry-picking. The debate exposed fractures within the Liberal caucus, as the government opposed the motion while insisting it remained committed to the MOU in its entirety, which required British Columbia's agreement and indigenous consultation.

Question Period featured direct, sustained exchanges between Prime Minister Carney and Opposition Leader Poilievre. Poilievre repeatedly pressed the Prime Minister to vote for the motion using his own words, while Carney maintained that the MOU was an integrated package that included stronger industrial carbon pricing and that picking individual elements was not a serious approach to nation-building. The debate on pipelines spilled into other Question Period topics, with Conservative members from Alberta accusing the Prime Minister of speaking out of both sides of his mouth—telling his "keep it in the ground" caucus the pipeline would never be built while signing an MOU promising one. The Prime Minister received one of his most pointed challenges when the former Liberal environment minister published an open letter criticizing the government's abandonment of climate goals.

Food prices and affordability remained a dominant theme, with Conservatives citing new data showing food bank usage at record levels and the 2026 Food Price Report forecasting an additional $1,000 in annual grocery costs. The government emphasized tax cuts for 22 million Canadians, the GST break for first-time homebuyers, and social programs including child care and dental care. Other Question Period topics included the Driver Inc. trucking scheme, where the Bloc Québécois drew connections between the Prime Minister's political organizer and companies employing drivers under the controversial model, and the government's red tape reduction summit. The evening featured the Ukrainian Heritage Month Act at second reading, where a Conservative member drew an awkward connection between supporting Ukraine and supporting Canadian oil and gas exports. The sitting concluded with adjournment proceedings on executive bonuses at Crown corporations, the Prime Minister's offshore investment funds, and grocery corporate profits.