Here's all the times Liberals said they would build an oil pipeline

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“We as a nation need to build some new pipelines for conventional energy”

Before Carney had even become prime minister, his campaign for the Liberal leadership included pledges that a Carney government would be championing some kind of new fossil fuel infrastructure.

In one of his first sit-down interviews since declaring his entry into federal politics, Carney said he supported “the concept” of a pipeline to move oil from Alberta to the Atlantic Coast. “We as a nation need to build some new pipelines for conventional energy,” he told CBC’s Rosemary Barton in February.

“You need to look forward in the future … that may mean you need pipelines that go East-West.”

In the final days of the premiership of Justin Trudeau, his industry minister told reporters that an oil pipelin