No matter how bad the climate situation becomes, tackling it is still an uphill climb politically

Despite the national outpouring of environmental angst last week, Canada could wind up on Oct. 21 with a climate policy not unlike the essentially empty approach fashioned by Harper more than a decade ago.

Participants of the Ottawa climate strike take to Parliament Hill on Sept. 27. The Green Party registered an uptick in its poll numbers after the climate protest marches, whereas being denounced by Thunberg for lack of action seems to have hurt Trudeau more than sidestepping the protests entirely hurt Scheer, writes Les Whittington. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

October 2, 2019

OTTAWA—I used to say, "maybe people will start getting concerned about climate change when the polar bears start swimming up to their front steps."

But maybe not. Perhaps that’s just alarmist, as the climate change deniers like to say about those expressing urgent wor...

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