When Canada knew how to lead on the environment

I cannot think of any other issue aside from tackling global warming where Canadian politicians would proudly proclaim their own country as irrelevant.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signs the Paris Agreement in in New York in 2016. As a country with one of the highest per capita carbon footprints in the world, Canada should be shooting for greater emissions reductions targets, writes Elizabeth May. United Nations photograph by Amanda Voisard

Opinion

BY ELIZABETH MAY

June 5, 2019

This is Environment Week in Canada. It was created decades ago by an act of Parliament to raise awareness and support environmental action. The first week of June was chosen in order to bracket June 5, World Environment Day. Back in the 1980s, when I was the senior policy advisor to the minster of ...

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