Canada’s opportunity to race to health, resilience, and zero emissions

Canada is blessed with an abundance of natural resources on which to build healthy, resilient prosperity. There is a place for everyone in this transition towards a cleaner, safe future. I look forward to speaking to Canadians from coast to coast to coast on how we can get there even faster.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured April 16, 2021, at a press conference on the Hill, took a step forward in April, raising Canada’s target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 40-45 per cent by 2030, from 36 per cent set out days earlier in the budget, writes Nigel Topping. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY NIGEL TOPPING

May 19, 2021

Like the rest of the world, Canada faces a choice: ramp up the race to a healthy, resilient zero-emissions economy and drive a faster recovery from COVID-19, or stick with the same tenuous economic system that led us into this global health and economic crisis. The answer, in hockey terms: go where...

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