Dear Prime Minister Carney, during these troubling times for Canada, as questions of unity and civic responsibility grow more pressing, we urge you to recognize a fundamental truth: Canada’s national interest cannot rely on expanding fossil fuel projects. It’s time to close the door once and for all on new pipelines — and stop using public money to support them.

Canada has recently begun making real progress on the climate. New policies, regulations and strategies have finally started to deliver results. This was shown in the latest National Inventory Report on greenhouse gas emissions, which marked the beginning of a long-awaited downward trend. Yet these environmental advances risk being undone. 

Since your arrival on the federal political stage and your election as prime minister, your public statements have set Canada on a collision course with climate and economic reality. You have pledged to make the country an “energy superpower,” banking on both renewables and so-called “conventional” fossil fuels. The issue? These are opposing paths, and one will drive Canadians into a dead end.

You have spoken of producing “decarbonized oil” using carbon capture and storage. But let’s be honest,........

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