Tom Mulcair: Trudeau talks a good game on climate change, but falls short on results
. Its key features were a very high carbon tax with rebates to families and offsets at the border to make sure pollution was paid by the right source.
In an interesting sidebar, Inco now had huge stocks of sulfur that, it turned out, could become a new revenue stream. As Harvard professor Michael Porter hadWhen President Ronald Reagan learned about the hole in the ozone layer, he didn’t emote for the gallery, as Trudeau likes to do…he swung into action. In record time thewas signed as the countries of the world came together as one to deal with an existential threat. Substances that were depleting the ozone layer were banned.
I had the good fortune to attend the conference that led to the Paris Accord. Trudeau had just been elected and in a moving speech, threw out his arms wide and proclaimed, “We’re back.” There was a lot of hope in the room. As the worst wildfires in memory continue to burn across Canada, our balance sheet for GHG production is increasingly in deficit territory. Since the Paris Accord, we have to include the C02 from forest fires in our filings with the UN’s IPCC. This year's fires won’t be registered by Canada for another two years but it’s already clear that whatever puny efforts Trudeau has put up, will pale in comparison to what’s just been released by these wildfires.
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