Climate change will also impact Canada’s traditional security interests

Climate change will primarily exacerbate food scarcity on land and at sea, actually reverse socio-economic development in the tropics, undermine institutions, and drive climate refugees from 141 countries, estimates of which, by 2050, range from 143 to 216 million, according to the World Bank, and as high as 1.2 billion.

Justin Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured Nov. 8, 2021, addressing his Liberal caucus in-person on the Hill for the first time since the federal election on Sept. 20. The prime minister recently proposed that Canada host a NATO Centre of Excellence on Climate and Security.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL

November 10, 2021

MONTREAL—On Oct. 29, 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proposed that Canada host a NATO Centre of Excellence on Climate and Security. Trudeau may be conceiving th...

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