I know they are hurting in terms of popularity, but offering one group an exemption to Canada’s carbon price predictably led to calls for equivalent ‘favours’ (if freedom to wreck the planet is a favour) from everyone.
It’s worth remembering how bad Canada’s total historical climate change record has been:
Liberal government set to miss 2030 emissions targets, says environment commissioner audit
Trudeau’s halt on carbon tax could undo years of his tentpole climate policy
Related:
- Climate change, law, and predictability
- Endless Canadian delay on climate change mitigation
- Can Canada meet the Conservative GHG targets?
- Monbiot’s open letter to Canada
- How to meet Canada’s climate targets
- Canada doesn’t deserve a UN Security Council seat
- Canada’s climate targets in 2012
- Canada not on track to meet its (inadequate) climate targets
- Canada is still in denial about climate and the bitumen sands
- The climate case against Trans Mountain
- Canada’s message to the world
- Canada’s climate inadequacy
- Net zero climate targets
- Trudeau’s climate failure
- Climate advocates should call for fossil fuel abolition, not “net zero”
- Canada submits new 2030 climate target
- Canada’s climate change record
The report painted a grim picture of emission reductions in Canada over the past 20 years, saying that the only significant drops in emissions came during the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, which had little to do with emissions reduction policy.
“Canada is the only G7 country that has not achieved any emissions reductions since 1990,” Jerry DeMarco, commissioner of the environment and sustainable development, told reporters Tuesday.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/environment-comissioner-audit-emissions-charging-stations-1.7020689
Despite climate pledges, Canada and other fossil fuel producers set to scale up production: report | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/canada-climate-fossil-fuel-production-report-1.7020988
‘Insanity’: petrostates planning huge expansion of fossil fuels, says UN report | Fossil fuels | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/08/insanity-petrostates-planning-huge-expansion-of-fossil-fuels-says-un-report
Yukon Party calls for Northern carbon tax exemption
Yukon finance minister says Ottawa’s pause on home heating carbon tax is a mistake
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-carbon-tax-reaction-1.7013399
Conservative premiers ask for meeting with PM on carbon tax carve-outs | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-premiers-meeting-trudeau-carbon-tax-1.7025799
Pierre Poilievre announces pressure campaign to force reversal on Trudeau’s carbon tax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFKKjPgUdjw
Justin Trudeau’s environment minister tries to quash speculation he’ll resign over carbon pricing
The question of Steven Guilbeault’s resignation was raised after he said in recent media interviews that there will be no more exemptions to the federal carbon price as long as he remains in his job.
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/justin-trudeau-s-environment-minister-tries-to-quash-speculation-he-ll-resign-over-carbon-pricing/article_25135135-95ff-5a5d-8d46-471fa093b2e1.html
Carbon Tax: Perceptions of insufficient rebates, cost of living concern & questions over efficacy send support plummeting
https://angusreid.org/carbon-tax-perceptions-rebates/
In the latest development threatening to upend Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s signature climate policy, almost half of Canadians want the carbon tax abolished, according to a new poll from Angus Reid.
The polling outfit found 42 per cent of Canadians want the carbon price eliminated altogether. While not technically a majority, the support for the carbon tax has all but disappeared: 25 per cent of Canadians think the price should stay at current levels rather than increasing each year, and 17 per cent think the carbon price should be lowered for the next three years. Only 15 per cent of those polled believe the carbon price should continue as is.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/11/17/news/public-support-carbon-tax-waning-quickly
Chiefs of Ontario ask for judicial review of carbon price regime
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/chiefs-of-ontario-ask-for-judicial-review-of-carbon-price-regime/ar-AA1kNBS6
N.W.T. premier says he wants complete carbon tax exemption for territory
Pressure has been on federal government to extend exemptions
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carbon-tax-exemption-suggestion-nwt-1.7054826
Carbon price could see Liberals ‘annihilated,’ Ford says as Trudeau, Smith meet | Globalnews.ca
https://globalnews.ca/news/10356253/justin-trudeau-danielle-smith-carbon-price/
Trudeau says Saskatchewan to get carbon rebates despite province not paying levies
SASKATOON – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Saskatchewan residents will continue to get carbon rebates even though the province has stopped remitting levies from natural gas to Ottawa.