Unexciting federal budget a flimsy smokescreen for climate capitulation

The Bay du Nord decision, like Trudeau’s decision to buy the TMX pipeline, will have profound and lasting echoes. It has deeply disappointed environmentalists who pinned their hopes on Guilbeault. It makes a farce of anything Trudeau says about climate in future.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured on the Hill on budget day, April 7, 2022. Why is a government so far off its Paris Accord commitments even contemplating new fossil fuel projects? For the jobs, supposedly, but those jobs are less plentiful than they once were, and, given the finite future of oil, less permanent, writes Susan Riley. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

April 11, 2022

CHELSEA, QUE.—According to the not-so-subtle Liberal communications plan, the few progressive and chewy morsels in last week’s federal budget should overshadow Justin Trudeau’s most brazen betrayal since 2015—far graver than his reversal on proportional representation and other, less consequ...

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