Progress on effort to review fossil fuel subsidies ‘slightly slower’ due to pandemic, says official

A senior official at Natural Resources Canada says the pandemic has stalled work on a 2018 joint initiative to track Canada’s progress on phasing out inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies. The Liberals have promised to end those subsidies by 2025.

Shawn Tupper, associate deputy minister with Natural Resources Canada, pictured on March 22, says the feds are working to ‘advance this file as fast as possible.’Screen capture via ParlVu

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BY PALAK MANGAT

March 22, 2021

A federal official says the pandemic has delayed progress on a joint initiative with Argentina to review what some estimate is billions of dollars in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, a commitment that the Trudeau government first announced in 2018.

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