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September 24th, 2019

Trudeau Has Net-Zero Credibility on Climate Change

Based on Justin Trudeau’s record, his phony promises on the climate crisis can’t be trusted.

His 2015 platform promised “we will end the cycle of federal parties – of all stripes – setting arbitrary targets without a real federal/provincial/territorial plan in place.”

But then the Liberals adopted Stephen Harper’s targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and are on path to meet them 200 years late.

After the pressure of big polluters, Justin Trudeau gave them a carbon pricing exemption, delayed the Clean Fuel Standard and methane regulations until after the election.

Under Justin Trudeau, Canada continues to spend around $3.3 billion a year on subsidies for big oil and gas companies, produce more greenhouse gas emissions per person than any other G20 economy and warm twice as fast as the rest of the world.

The Liberal commitment to introduce legislated targets for emissions reductions could have been implemented more than a decade ago – if the Liberal-dominated Senate hadn’t let Jack Layton’s private member’s bill C-377 The Climate Change Accountability Act die on the order paper.

And they blew past the 1997 Kyoto Protocol’s emissions targets by 30%.

After over two decades of broken Liberal promises, the Liberals today released a phony climate plan with no details, saying they need to consult an “expert panel” after the election.

Jagmeet Singh and the NDP have a bold plan to fight climate change, transition to clean energy, and make life more affordable for families with retrofits, electric transit, and zero-emission vehicles.