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A Conservative MP from Regina is blaming the federal Liberal government for layoffs at Evraz Steel in Regina.
As of Thursday, 591 employees in the tubular division were laid off indefinitely.
Regina-Lewvan MP Warren Steinley lays the blame squarely on the federal government.
He believes Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party has implemented anti-energy policies which make it more difficult to go forward with the projects for which Evraz supplies steel.
“We’ve had conversations with the union and the management. They make pipe, but both of them will say they’re an oil and gas company,” Steinley told Gormley on Thursday.
Steinley laid out a list of several projects that have been cancelled or delayed — including the Saguenay LNG project in Quebec and the Tech Frontier Mine in Alberta — for which Evraz could have supplied the steel.
“Right now, we have a prime minister who has been committed to phasing out the oilsands and the energy sector. It looks like that’s the only promise he might keep,” Steinley said.
He pointed the finger at policies like Bills C-48 and C-69, as well as the federal carbon tax.
“I think this government has continued to gut punch the energy sector …,” Steinley said. “We’re standing with (the union and the workers). I think we’re the only voice that they have.”