Time for more action, less talk, on climate change

Protecting the environment requires more than political rhetoric, as well as cheaply written and pompously promoted accords.

Angelo Persichilli writes that he's tired of polls saying Canadians support tough action to defend the environment, given what happened when former Liberal leader Stéphane Dion tried to introduce a carbon tax.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY ANGELO PERSICHILLI

April 3, 2017

TORONTO—You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to understand there is something seriously wrong with the environment. At the same time, you don’t have to be a political scientist to understand that politics is the major obstacle to the solution of the problem. This is because in politics you...

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