Liberal leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland's pledge to make Canada an energy superpower by exporting LNG faces criticism for neglecting the sector during her time in government. Critics question her credibility and argue that her focus on LNG over oil is a strategy to appease both environmentalists and the economy.
OTTAWA — Liberal leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland ’s pitch to export liquefied natural gas to allies is drawing skeptical reactions from those who say her government neglected the sector over the past decade.
Hall Findlay said Freeland was a central figure in the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for nearly a decade, as it"did everything it could possibly do to limit our ability to export energy." “They’re the right things to do," he said of Freeland's energy policy proposals. “The question is whether she has credibility to say these things."
But Hall Findlay, a former Liberal party leadership contestant herself who later left and backed centrist Conservative party contenders, noted the absence of any mention of oil in Freeland's platform. "Canada's been spending an awful lot of time shooting itself in the foot so that a few people in Ottawa can pat themselves on the back, and unfortunately Chrystia Freeland's one of them."
The federal government also pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into LNG Canada’s complex in Kitimat, B.C.
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