OTTAWA – In response to Mark Carney turning into Prime Minister and appointing his first cupboard, Greenpeace Canada’s senior power strategist Keith Stewart stated:
“Canadians need to see their arduous work during the last decade to battle local weather change and to guard biodiversity to be continued and strengthened transferring ahead. Prime Minister Carney has an extended historical past engaged on worldwide local weather finance and we hope to see his deep understanding of the problems translate into daring and impressive coverage.
The tying collectively of heritage and biodiversity recordsdata underneath Minister Guilbeault within the new Cupboard provides the chance to press ahead with defending nature as a key a part of Canadian id and values, via the tabled Nature Accountability Act, and finalizing of worldwide plastics and oceans treaties. We look ahead to working with Minister Duguid on the local weather file.
It’s unlucky that Pierre Poilievre efficiently poisoned the nicely on shopper carbon tax by spreading false info, however it was the commercial carbon value that was attaining the majority of air pollution reductions so we’re happy to see that our new Prime Minister has promised to strengthen it and name on him to keep up and strengthen different key local weather and biodiversity safety insurance policies.
As President Trump takes a wrecking ball to U.S. environmental and human rights protections whereas threatening long-time allies, we have to resolutely reject ‘Maple MAGA’ proposals that will search to duplicate that agenda right here. It’s time for Canada to chart its personal course to cut back our reliance on fossil fuels and the USA via an bold program to place Canadians to work constructing a greener economic system and renewed internationalism.”
For extra info, please contact:
Keith Stewart, Senior power strategist, Greenpeace Canada, [email protected] ; + 1 416 659-0294
