OTTAWA — Environment Commissioner Julie Gelfand says Canada is not doing enough to combat climate change.
“For decades, successive federal governments have failed to reach their targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, and the government is not ready to adapt to a changing climate,” she said in a statement Tuesday morning. “This must change.” Canada is not on track to hit its 2030 target, despite policies like the national price on carbon that took effect this week. Gelfand’s audit says the Liberals are not keeping a promise to get rid of “inefficient” fossil-fuel subsidies, which are undermining efforts to combat climate change, encouraging wasteful consumption of fossil fuels and discouraging investments in cleaner energy sources.
Finance Canada’s work on the subsidies focused exclusively on fiscal and economic considerations without giving any attention to the social and environmental issues at play. For its part, Environment and Climate Change Canada only looked at 23 out of more than 200 federal organizations when it compiled an inventory of potential subsidies for the fossil-fuel industry, Gelfand found.
The regulations identified just four subsidies at all, including support to help Indigenous communities keep electricity prices down; funding for electric and alternative-fuel vehicle infrastructure, such as charging stations; and funding for research on clean technologies for the oil-and-gas sector.
Interesting a government report quickly released to coincide with Trudeau’s effort to “change the Channel” from his “Obstruction of Justice” Scandal and to support an “election issue” he wants...are Canadians dumb enough fall for this
Another garbage article
It’s certainly not been warmer in my part of Ontario these last two years. Winter nor summer.
Does this mean we’ll only have 6 months of winter now instead of 7?
maybe i am alone but i love that canada is getting warmer.. it sure didn't feel like it past winter. if it gets warm enough perhaps i wont have to become a snowbird.
Why does a respectable newspaper post such garbage?
We didn’t need a report for that. One look at this picture will tell you all you need to know about Canada’s responsibility for climate change. onpoli cdnpoli
It would not matter to the climate if Canada did not exist. More government propaganda. Ask yourself why China and India are exempt from setting targets. So sad the liberal brainwashing continues with media's help.
Sure, destroy your economy more 🇨🇦...doofus climate hoax lovers. 🤣
What! Canada cant control climate change? Tax it.
Spot on. Rising emissions are unacceptable this day and age.
The headline doesn't quite make sense. Canada can, on its own curtail its emissions. It cannot curtail climate change per se, because it is an individual actor - and that's not what the environment watchdog said.
It isn't us causing climate change. It is China and India. Canada can't do much more so stay out of our pockets!