How green was this budget?

Being better on climate policy than the Official Opposition is too low a bar for a confidence vote.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland pose with the 2024 budget. It's not possible to vote confidence in a government that never produced a cost-benefit analysis, much less a reliable environmental assessment before wasting $34-billion on a pipeline and tanker project, writes Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ELIZABETH MAY

April 22, 2024

The decision about supporting a federal budget is less about whether any particular budgetary spending can be supported, and is more the ultimate expression of confidence in any government.

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