Pressed by reporters on Monday to explain what a Conservative government would do to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change, Pierre Poilievre again demurred.
But there’s also no reason (beyond partisan political considerations) for waiting to have a real debate on Canada’s response to climate change until the writs are dropped.
The environment commissioner’s latest report on the Liberal government’s climate agenda, released Tuesday, is a decent starting point for that debate.
Indeed, the mere existence of the commissioner’s review is due to the reporting mechanisms built into the Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act passed in 2021 — government legislation the Conservatives voted against.
When a long-time environmentalist — Catherine Abreu, who is also a member of the government’s net-zero advisory body — remarked at a conference in Ottawa this week that climate policy in Canada has gone through a “revolution” in the last seven years, she had solid grounds for saying so.
But the precise measure of that revolution, and Canada’s chances of getting to within sight of that 2030 target, now depend a lot on the actual implementation of policies that have so far only been promised or proposed.
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Pressed by reporters on Monday to explain what a Conservative government would do to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change, Pierre Poilievre again demurred.
But there’s also no reason (beyond partisan political considerations) for waiting to have a real debate on Canada’s response to climate change until the writs are dropped.
The environment commissioner’s latest report on the Liberal government’s climate agenda, released Tuesday, is a decent starting point for that debate.
Indeed, the mere existence of the commissioner’s review is due to the reporting mechanisms built into the Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act passed in 2021 — government legislation the Conservatives voted against.
When a long-time environmentalist — Catherine Abreu, who is also a member of the government’s net-zero advisory body — remarked at a conference in Ottawa this week that climate policy in Canada has gone through a “revolution” in the last seven years, she had solid grounds for saying so.
But the precise measure of that revolution, and Canada’s chances of getting to within sight of that 2030 target, now depend a lot on the actual implementation of policies that have so far only been promised or proposed.
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