Trudeau government’s new climate plan is insufficient

The Green New Deal, which could do so much to accelerate needed change, is too radical, and too impossible for a weak Liberal government.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government is not acting fast to proactively to contain the growing danger of climate change, writes Bill Henderson. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY BILL HENDERSON

January 18, 2021

GIBSONS, B.C.—In 2014-2015, led by the newly formed Ecofiscal Commission, there was a bloom of comment, editorials and op-eds advocating carbon pricing as a climate mitigation method. As a British Columbia climate activist, I was familiar with the failure of our province’s vaunted carbon tax, so...

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