The disconnect between climate promise and delivery

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plan to reduce carbon emissions while expanding fossil fuel energy sources is 100-per-cent contradictory. Canada must move forward on climate, and not backwards, as the Liberal government's plan suggests.

The climate crisis has multiplied the risks of forest wildfires during this last decade, including this one in 2016. Environment Canada is predicting above normal temperatures and mostly dry conditions across the country this summer, which is virtually a promise of another horrid year for wildfires in Western Canada, the authors write. Photograph courtesy of Stefan Doerr

Opinion

BY GEOFF STRONG, RICHARD VAN DER JAGT, TREVOR HANCOCK

June 23, 2025

The climate crisis once again spawned wildfires during May this year, with 104 wildfires out of control between British Columbia and western Ontario as of June 4. Entire communities have been evacuated, with tens of thousands of people exposed to heavy air pollution and forc...

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