Ending public financial support for fossil fuels

Canada will not meet its climate targets without stronger policies to reduce fossil fuel use.

Thick smoke hangs over Ottawa on June 30, 2023. The federal government is in the final stages of preparing a plan to help address climate change by ending fossil fuel subsidies by the end of 2023, but it is reasonable to be skeptical of these plans, write Thomas Gunton, Kyla Tienhaara, and David Wheeler.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY THOMAS GUNTON, KYLA TIENHAARA, DAVID WHEELER

July 12, 2023

As much of the East Coast remains blanketed in smoke, the federal government is in the final stages of preparing a plan to help address climate change by ending fossil fuel subsidies by the end of

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