What part of ‘climate emergency’ do the feds not get?

Prime Minister Mark Carney needs to wake up to the climate emergency, and accept Canada’s obligation to reduce fossil fuel use and tackle global warming. 
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at luncheon celebrating Canadian Olympians and Paralympians at the Sir John A. Macdonald Building in Ottawa on May 27, 2026.

On June 18, 2019, almost exactly seven years ago, the House of Commons voted 186 to 63 in support of a motion put forward by then-environment and climate change minister Catherine McKenna to declare a national climate emergency. Since 2019, the climate emergency has onl...

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