Hour 4 of Ottawa Now for Mon. February 23rd, 2026

BERLIN — Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre promised a Conservative government would sign binding supply agreements with European allies such as Germany to supply them with natural gas while “overriding bureaucracies and other levels of government” to speed up building pipelines and LNG terminals. Poilievre delivered a speech Wednesday in Berlin that alternated between a full-throated promotion of Canadian liquefied natural gas (LNG) and critical mineral exports and a campaign-style series of commitments if he is one day elected prime minister. Poilievre is currently on his first...