OTTAWA — Steven Guilbeault, a high-profile climate activist and Liberal MP, resigned from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet on Thursday in a dramatic renunciation of the government’s environmental policy and a new deal to support oil-rich Alberta’s proposal for a major pipeline to the west coast.

In a statement online , the outgoing heritage minister expressed “great sadness” after telling Carney earlier Thursday that he was resigning from cabinet. Guilbeault’s statement said he “strongly” opposes Thursday’s deal and said several parts of the climate plan he worked on when he held the federal environment portfolio “have been, or are about to be, dismantled” by the Carney government.

Guilbeault also cited a lack of consultation with the region’s Indigenous nations and the British Col

See Full Page