The election was a win for nature, but now comes the real work

This next stage must be about implementation, removing politics, and ignoring misinformation, and that requires a new approach to how government functions.

Terry Duguid was named environment and climate change minister before the election. Protecting nature can’t just be the job of one department, writes Megan Leslie.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MEGAN LESLIE

May 7, 2025

Canada is home to the world’s longest coastline, nearly 25 per cent of the world’s wetlands, 20 per cent of its freshwater, and nine per cent of its forests, lands, and waters that host about 80,000 plant and animal species. Our natural wealth is extraordinary—and incr...

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