The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday, Dec. 1, edition that Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith recently announced a new oil pipeline, positioning it as a key move to expedite infrastructure projects. The Globe's guest columnists Terry-Lynn Williams-Davidson and Elizabeth Bulbrook write that this announcement, however, raises concerns about sidelined environmental standards, ignored provincial opposition and risks to indigenous rights. B.C. Premier David Eby opposes developments that risk rolling back indigenous rights and allow decisions on first nations' lands and waters without their consent. Bill C-5 creates exceptional regimes for projects labelled "nationally significant," concentrating sweeping decision-making authority in cabinet and compressing or bypassing normal environmental and regulatory review. The government's new laws allow pipelines, LNG facilities, ports, subsea cables, highways and other large-scale developments to be fast-tracked based on a political timeline instead of following a thorough process rooted in reconciliation and aligned with Canada's United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.