Federal and provincial governments need to co-operate to reduce carbon emissions through carbon capture and other technologies while acknowledging Canada will continue to export oil and gas for years to come
have good reason to fear the Liberals’ plans. Many still remember the economic devastation that Pierre Trudeau’s Liberal government wrought in 1980 with the National Energy Program, which caused massive job losses through its efforts to nationalize and subsidize the oil-and-gas sector.
Imagine how much better things would have been, environmentally and economically, if the federal government had decided in the 1980s to gradually reduce the annual cod harvest off Newfoundland and Labrador to preserve stocks while retraining those who would lose their jobs before those jobs were lost?
Instead, Alberta and Saskatchewan are passing sovereignty acts and Mr. Trudeau ignores even the concerns of Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley, who last Friday criticized the 2030 emission-reduction target and the even more severe reductions that NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is calling for., vowing to fight the targets “with every tool and tactic that I can muster,” should she become premier, “because it’s not practical.
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