Dear Ottawa: pick a lane on climate and hit the accelerator

What the climate emergency demands is the same single-minded focus and dispatch that the federal government brought to its pandemic response.

Project Arrow, a zero-emission concept vehicle, on display outside West Block on June 14. Since Canadian governments are afraid to impose production cuts, perhaps they should concentrate instead on diminishing consumer demand for fossil fuel products, writes Susan Riley.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

July 3, 2023

CHELSEA, QUE.—Forget the long-promised federal cap on oil sands emissions, now expected (maybe) in September. Forget the “just transition” or “sustainable jobs” strategy: the Trudeau government’s recently-released plan to devise a plan to find new, well-paying jo...

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