Feds’ climate bill a ‘significant achievement’—and it’s full of holes: experts

‘The biggest risk is that we’re going to backload the policies and the efforts that we’re going to need,’ says Michael Bernstein.

Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson held a press conference in Ottawa on Nov. 19, 2020, flanked by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna, after his government introduced a bill to require regular government reports on reducing greenhouse gas emissions for the next 30 years into Parliament. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

November 23, 2020

The federal government's new emissions target legislation delivers on the Liberal party’s promise to confront climate change, but leaves plenty of wiggle room for future governments to shrug off the goal of a net-zero emissions economy by 2050, say two experts in en...

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