‘Nothing’s Off the Table’: AFN Warns of Potential Legal Action if Bill C-5 Passes

Open letter to Huron-Bruce MP Ben Lobb on Bill C-5

We are alarmed and angered that the federal Conservatives are supporting the Liberal government’s plans to bulldoze through Bill C-5, an undemocratic bill that bypasses environmental protections, ignores Indigenous rights and overrides laws to speed up major infrastructure projects.

First Nations leaders oppose Bill C-5

ONIGAMING – Chief Jeffrey Copenace wasn’t in Ottawa Tuesday for a rally against Bill C-5, but he was following its progress.

‘Nothing’s off the table’: AFN warns of potential legal action if Bill C-5 passes

National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak says Indigenous people want to grow and flourish, but ‘not at the stake of their rights’

CCLA Urges Federal Government to Reverse Course on Bill C-5

On June 18, 2025, CCLA sent an open letter to the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, P.C., M.P., urging him to ensure that Part 2 of Bill C-5, the Building Canada Act, receives the detailed and meaningful parliamentary scrutiny it so desperately requires. In the absence of such a democratic dialogue, CCLA calls on Members of Parliament and Senators to vote against this sweeping piece of legislation. The Building Canada Act grants the executive branch o…

National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak Testifies to House Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities on Bill C-5 - Assembly of First Nations

(June 17, 2025 – Unceded Algonquin Territory, Ottawa) –National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak will testify today to the House Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities on Bill C-5, the One Canadian Economy Act. National Chief Woodhouse Nepinak will bring forward First Nations concerns over the Building Canada Act and its implications for First Nations

PRESS CONFERENCE: Elizabeth responds to Bill C-5

On Monday June 16, Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands, held a press conference at Parliament Hill to respond to Bill C-5. She was joined by Gord Johns, MP for Courtenay-Alberni, Grand Chief Linda Debassigé of the Anishinabek Nation, Anna Johnston of West Coast Environmental Law, and Ontario Regional Chief Abram Benedict. The post PRESS CONFERENCE: Elizabeth responds to Bill C-5 appeared first on El…