OTTAWA – In response to Mark Carney changing into Prime Minister and appointing his first cupboard, Greenpeace Canada’s senior vitality strategist Keith Stewart mentioned:
“Canadians wish to see their laborious work during the last decade to combat 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 likelihood to press ahead with defending nature as a key a part of Canadian identification and values, by the tabled Nature Accountability Act, and finalizing of worldwide plastics and oceans treaties. We stay up for working with Minister Duguid on the local weather file.
It’s unlucky that Pierre Poilievre efficiently poisoned the nicely on client carbon tax by spreading false info, nevertheless it was the commercial carbon value that was reaching 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 might search to copy that agenda right here. It’s time for Canada to chart its personal course to cut back our reliance on fossil fuels and the US by an formidable program to place Canadians to work constructing a greener financial system and renewed internationalism.”
For extra info, please contact:
Keith Stewart, Senior vitality strategist, Greenpeace Canada, [email protected] ; + 1 416 659-0294
