Canada’s clean-energy sector languishes while oil and gas industry takes centre stage in Ottawa

To meet its professed energy and climate goals, the Liberal government will have to show the level determination and urgency in its electrification efforts as it does for expanding oil and gas production and exports.
Tim Hodgson
Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson speaks with reporters in the House of Commons Foyer on Sept. 21, 2026, after Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon tabled Bill C-39, the Building Canada Strong Act.

Canada’s clean-energy sector seems to languish in the shadows while the oil and gas industry takes centre stage in the nation’s political debates and economic strategy.

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