Poilievre reprimands Carney on LNG Canada's outsourcing of Chinese steel | FULL

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Canada's House of Commons returned to session on Monday, with Prime Minister Mark Carney in attendance for question period after the House of Commons was adjourned for the final week of September. Carney’s major projects bill — C-39 — proposes measures to create a one-year timeline for federal project decisions, create zones of “national interest” where certain projects are pre-approved and change when the jobs minister can intervene in a labour dispute — a move aimed at reducing the number of work stoppages. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre railed against Carney, accusing him of failing "to buy Canadian," while claiming the steel required for LNG Canada’s Phase 2 project "will not come from the out-of-work Hamilton steel workers, it will come from China. Why is the Prime Minister sending our steel jobs to Beijing?" The prime minister defended the project, saying that it will use 15,000 tons of Canadian steel in the broader ecosystem. The controversy comes after reports came o

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