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Sarnia-Lambton MP Marilyn Gladu wants to see the list.

Gladu was in Sarnia recently speaking to a Business Summit held by the Sarnia-Lambton Chamber of Commerce where she criticized Prime Minister Mark Carney of not acting quickly enough to move the economy forward.

Carney, who was elected to a minority government in April, has said Canada must move quickly to meet the threats of US President Donald Trump. 

He’s placed stiff tariffs on some of Canada’s biggest industries and is in the middle of renegotiating a trade agreement with  his neighbour to the north.

Carney has said Canada can’t rely on the US to be a good trading partner anymore and is championing the idea of ‘nation building’ projects to move the country forward economically. The Liberals have already passed one bill – C5 – which removed federal trade barriers and gives power to cabinet ministers to move forward projects they deem are of national importance.

Gladu agreed that Carney has moved faster than many of his predecessors. But she says the government needs to step up the pace. 

 “We should be seeing that list. We said we want to build major projects. There’s been 25 in the pipeline stalled. So from that 25 there should be some that we would be green lighting and saying, ‘These are the ones that we’re going to put through our process, and we’re going to exempt them from this, that or the other thing,’” she tells The Independent.

“I think that’s the first thing we would expect to see from (Natural Resources Minister) Tim Hodgson, is what are the projects for natural resources that are going to come forward.”

And, Gladu says, the PM has to be more transparent about what he’s doing. “ I don’t know that the plan, if it exists, has been articulated so we’re not exactly sure, what is Carney’s plan to address the threats that we’re getting?”

Gladu also wants Carney to move quickly to scrap the former Liberal government’s Electric Vehicle Mandate which requires 20 per cent of vehicles sold next years to be EVs. 

“We’re at seven and a half percent, people are not buying them because the technology is not where it needs to be.”